Desiderius Price

They do allow fan fiction, and anything you submit is encrypted and scrambled. They just want word count, and not manuscripts per se, so the verification process doesn’t even save the encrypted file.

But do your own unofficial NaNa if you like, and get those 70k words out by November 30!

Let’s go with posted, start of the month is 126.8k, and I’m effectively trying to get it to 200k.  (It’s on AO3 as I was more confident posting it there, and luckily, they’ve got word counts.)  And boy, is the word count ballooning with this revision. 

So, I can measure the word count to a very specific plot point that’s shared among the drafts, pretty early into the story.  The old-old draft came to 60k to that point, the old-draft (now being replaced) came to 23.6k; the “clean” new version marked 50k; while the “adult” version clocked 115k to reach that same plot point.  A little arithmetic on the word counts to those old drafts, and I won’t be surprised if I’m talking millions of words before the story is truly finished.

Thus, that 70k goal might move me 5% of the way through the story, maybe….

What will help this month is every weekend is either 3 or 4 days due to my work schedule.