Verified!

I just verified and my word count was given as 51992 words. My word processor said I had 52020 words. I'm curious what the missing 28 words are.

One other point, this year I didn't have to expand all my contractions to win. One year, three or four years ago, I changed all my "don't" and "can't" etc. to "do not" and "can not" etc. in order to win.

And of course I didn't have to write a lot about nothing to make up the word count either. Both indicate progress on my part and I'm happy about that. Now back to the outline/synopsis.