As mentioned in a previous post, I'm doing NaNoWriMo this year, continuing and expanding A Tasty Little Crumpet. I wrote a little bit of this new section earlier in the evening and had the devil's own time trying to get into the NaNo site to upload my excerpt and word count. It took me an hour to get into my profile, which meant yesterday's wordcount got posted as today's, since midnight had passed while I waited for access to the site. I had a whole 95 words written at that point, since upped to 252.

I could include the finished wordcount of the story I'm expanding in my total, but I won't -- at least, not until the end of NaNo, especially if it will nudge me over the 50k word mark. I don't think I'll get anywhere near that, but it is theoretically possible I might "win", albeit unlikely. I'm mostly using NaNo as a way to nudge myself to work faster than I usually do. (Lame snail, mostly.)

I didn't see any of those little wordcount widgets on the site, nor the day-by-day progress chart. I like those and I wish they were back. I enjoyed seeing the little meter increase and showing it off in my blog. It's a trivial thing, but I do miss it.