Today’s word count is courtesy of OpenOffice, since NaNoWriMo‘s word count feature shut down at midnight last night. The NaNoWriMo word count might have been slightly different. When I compared the two from time to time during the month, sometimes OpenOffice was higher, and at other times NaNoWriMo was higher. Apparently, the two program use different algorithms for deciding what counts as a word.

I had another inexplicable burst of deadline-free productivity this morning, and took the story all the way to my intended ending, so it’s complete for now. I am making a backup copy on CD, which will go into my lockbox. I may print out the story just to see how it looks on paper, but I’m going to set it aside for a few weeks before I make any serious attempt to rewrite it. It really is rough; it really does read like it was speed-written in a month’s time. But there are moments in it that I like very much, and I think it will be worth the effort of trying to rewrite.

Thanks to all of you for your support and encouragement during November.