Farewell, November

The clock just struck 12:00 midnight.  It's now officially December 1st and NaNoWriMo is over.

I know I didn't keep up with the updates here, but November turned out to be quite the crazy month.  Situations at work, family stuff, and trying to write a 50,000 word novel made for a hectic and sometimes stressful 30 days.

But as for my first NaNo, it was a pretty fun experience!

Final word count: 36,000 words.  14,000 words shy of the goal.

I had a feeling I wasn't going to make it, but heading into the last week, I had it figured that I could pull out 3,000 a day plus two 5,000 word days.  It didn't happen and it got to be that I would've needed 7,000 a day to finish in time.

I'm a little sad that I wasn't able to hit the goal.  Especially when I start browsing the site and I see lots of people with the little purple winner bars.  Then I look at what I've written so far and it lessens the pain some. I did write 36,000 words.

Let me say that to myself again:
I wrote 36,000 words.

I know I've never written that many words for one story/paper.  Even though I can't claim the win, I don't count this as a loss.  Without NaNoWriMo, I wouldn't have had the motivation to put this passing idea on paper.  And I wrote nearly 75% of a novel out of that idea.  So, I'm calling this a 'non-win'.  As a Cubs fan, the same end-of-the-season mantra applies:  There's always next year!

My plans now that it's December?
Well, I go back to what I was doing before:  watching Classic Doctor Who (currently on the Second Doctor!), crocheting, and reading.  As if I haven't challenged myself enough over the last month, the first book on my reading list is Anna Karenina.

I will try to keep up more, here.  And I'll let you know if I decide to do Camp NaNoWriMo in the summer!

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