Well, it's really, really official: I won NaNoWriMo 2009 (along with tens of thousands of others).
I uploaded my manuscript to their official word-count bots, and after they did their number-crunching thingy, I was directed to a page with the following graphic:
And this nice little note:
You did it, writer.
Pitted against a merciless deadline and battling hordes [...:]
Published on November 25, 2009 08:44