What to do if you didn't validate

If you have 50,000+ words in your novel and your progress bar is still blue, it probably means that you did not validate. This is fine if you do not care about the video cheer, the PDF certificate and the icons that validated winners received. Validated winners are also eligible for the CreateSpace free five books offer.

If you didn't validate because you had technical difficulties doing so, please post your request for help in this tech-help thread. They should be able to help you.

Good luck!

What video cheer??? I never got any cheers??? :(

Do tell me about this cheer!

If you win, you go to the winners page and there is a video cheer there by the NaNoWriMo staff. It's really quite nice :-)