Yay!!! I made it in at exactly 50000 words last night at 11:00. The word count validator gave me an extra 31 words but I'm pretty proud of myself for sliding in sliding into home so close to the wire! It was touch and go for awhile there and I can say with some confidence that this year's novel was by far the most disjointed, choppy piece of shite I've ever written. Still, the universe is solid and I've fallen hard for my characters so I'm going to try and sort things out, probably post them to RaTs. Right now I'm just glad to be done!