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[gettingitwrite]

Nano Day 30: I won!

I did it! I actually full on wrote 50,000 words in a month! (And got a severely underwritten first draft completed in the process). I honestly didn’t think I’d do it, and I’m still in shock. Ahhh!

[desperatlytryingtowriteabook]

NaNo Win

Still can’t believe I did!! I’m squeeing/crying/yelling!! I might do another post tomorrow once the exctiment is a bit more in check, but in the meantime...

The proof:

NaNo found 400 extra words, somehow :p

Look at how pretty the cover is with that lovely ribbon!!!!

An ENORMOUS thank you to:

@meridianrose @itslmdee for all the support and squeeing and shared snippets and “ugh, why did we ever choose to write?><” and milion of gifs! Couldn’t have done that without you!

@magicawn because I think she’s the first one who dragged me into NaNo last year? And she’s the first one who ever hear about PS. Here’s to you, Innava!

@zephfair for the support and the kind messages and fangirling!

@chaptersonetoinfinity new friend :p We didn’t talk much, but I’m very glad to see you in my notifications and see your NaNo progress! And you have the prettiest icon of them all :)

@i-dragonqueen @unfocused-notwriter new friend too! Amazed and curious about your stories, I’d love to know even more! Thanks for letting me babble and for our talk about murder :p (We’re writers, I swear!!)

And thanks a lot to all those I shamefully forget and who have been supporting me in the background! You rock, people!!!!!

[nicoleacedit]

Guess who just won her second-ever November NaNo!!! :D

THREE WHOLE DAYS EARLY HELL YEAH

[firedragon1321]

NaNoWriMo- GAME!

So here's my final wordcount for Tick Tick's initial draft. This is the second-highest wordcount for any of my NaNos (2020's Monomyth beats it with 78000+ words). This is also my record for completing the words for a novel, with 12 days.

Not much going on here. I wrapped everything up- not exactly neatly, but at least decently. Teosur survives the fungus infestation, though his legs don't. There's a lot of messy feelings lying around. But I ended with a happy moment for the characters. They've been through too much shit.

I'm gonna take a rest for a bit (as this draft was basically written in 12 days) and then move on to editing Monomyth. I'm not sure if I'm gonna really blog about that to the same extent as Tick Tick, since it will just be tweaking the existing draft. So if I don't- um- uh. I forgot. I'm eepy.

[caitlindperry]

November Review - NaNoWriMo and Self Care

November Review – NaNoWriMo and Self Care

Well the month of November is over and done and I guess it’s time to see where things stand.

I started the month with the intention to focus on my own self care and not spend as much time worrying about posting or any of that stuff. Well, I definitely didn’t post (except for a blurb about my day in Amsterdam), though I found it a lot easier to focus on my Twitter when I wasn’t worrying about so…

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[the-tar-road]

Guess who won for the first time in their life!! #Me

Guess who finished their novel for the first time in their life! #DefinitelyNotMe

[jessattemptstonano]

nano wordcount: 50015 word wordcount: 50189

AHHH

Let's talk about it being about a week later, in the warehouse. There's a game on. I'm cheering against Nya-- it's the principle of the matter-- but she has far more sports team pride than any of us could ever have guessed. Her normally diminuitive pantsuit is covered with an orange and black Tigers jersey, scarf, hat, sunglasses, and decorative foam finger. She has a cheap beer in her hand. Elaine is there. This is the only kind of time she will ever be allowed in the warehouse, Hebdomidaire has made this very clear. Hebdomidaire has also made it clear that watching college football is stupid, and Mona agrees with her. They're trying to set up a ping pong table in the middle of the room, and their curses are being drowned out by the roar of the commentary and the crowd. Sefa has made popcorn, and has brought more things than could possibly be put on popcorn to try out, because, in his words, there has to be something that will make the popcorn palatable to my insectoid jaws. There's paprika, bakers yeast, salt, butter, hot sauce, barbequeue sauce, peanut butter, toffee, chocolate, and pepper. He's sure we can find something good.

  Hebdomidaire comes over to grab something for Mona out of the cooler, and brushed by Elaine. Elaine reaches up with one hand and kisses her.

  Elaine kissed Weekly hard. Weekly kinda fell into it. I looked away anywhere else, both feeling utterly embarrassed at seeing my sister make out with someone and also like I was intruding on something important.

When it's over they both look flushed and embarrassed. Sefa flicks popcorn at them, "Get a room. Come on now." I catch Nya's eye, and she shrugs, "At least someone's doing it."

  Sefa flicks popcorn at me.

  Maybe it's going to be okay after all.

  (HW: Really? That’s what you’re going to close out on? A food fight? Nothing’s resolved, nothing is sure, and you talked about me and your sister making out which is super weird by the way.

EG: IT’s weird for me too, you know. And it’s a good ending. Makes the people happy. Nothing is resolved and nothing is okay, but maybe it can be. Maybe it can be for you, as well.

HW: We still don’t know who sent those notes or what that vision in the market was about.

EG: That doesn’t matter. That can happen later. For now, maybe it’s all going to be okay.)

  Maybe somewhere else I’m kissing Pat and Eddy and we get to have a storybook ending. But maybe right now it’s also okay to be with other people who may or may not be happy.

Maybe that's okay.