Nanowrimo’s Over!
Tuesday, November 30th, 2010
Nanowrimo’s Last Day – November 30
Today is the last day of Nanowrimo. I haven’t been posting the past few days, but have continued to write. My novel currently has over 76,150 words, so I passed the 50,000 gate days ago. I’m still shooting for the novel to be about 85,000 words. Hopefully, it’ll be finished in about a week.
However life and some narrow minded “nons” (stands for non-handicapped) managed to ruin the ending for me.
I started a day early trying to validate my manuscript to be able to enter the “Winners Circle”. I still remember last year when I never got my novel validated. Again this year the validator wouldn’t accept my manuscript (due to my adaptive equipment? No one will tell me). I contacted a staff member (thank you NS), and also left a message at their message center.
NS got back to me and I sent her a copy of my manuscript to date. She validated it for me and I downloaded the winner’s certificate. But I wanted a downloadable image they also offered to the winners. Unfortunately, the images weren’t text labeled, so I was unable to locate them to download them. I sent another email to NS and I hope she’ll be able to help me once again.
As I mentioned, I was not surprised about the lack of accessibility on the Nanowrimo site, as I’ve experienced it before. It does seem to be getting worse rather than better, though. But the site is filling up with all sorts of things for the nons, while those of us using adaptive equipment still can’t get basic services. Can you say discrimination?