NaNoWriMo Winner = ME

It feels kind of silly to call yourself a winner when everybody that crosses that 50,000 word finish line is dubbed a winner. Still, I'll take it. It's been a long month. I managed to write the NaNo novel, keep up with my client deadlines and be there for my personal commitments. So yeah, even if there are hundreds of winners, I'll gladly wave the winner flag right alongside them.

The National Novel Writing Month stats are interesting.  
Number of words logged during the 2011 event: 3,074,068,446

Total collective word count for 2012: 3,144,450,256

That's a bunch of words! I bet some of them are even good. My own, however, are probably not. Not yet, at least. I'll fix all that during the rewrite. 

Coming up soon, I'm going to write a post about everything I learned by participating (nee, winning, haha) NaNoWriMo. Some of it is trivial and some is pretty profound. I just don't have to juice to write about it right now. I'm spent. 

In case you're wondering, yes. All in all, it was worth it.   

NaNoWriMo - Been there, done that, got the tee-shirt.

Closing In on NaNoWriMo

Four days. Four short days remain in November - National Novel Writing Month - which means I have four days to finish my novel.

What's that? How am I doing? Oh, thanks for asking.

Here are the specifics:

So yeah, I'm closing in on it. I made a commitment to put 50k words on the page this month, so I'm staying with it. 

I'm pretty sure that what I've written the past few days is crap. It may be salvageable crap or it may be editing room crap - that remains to be seen. But not anytime soon.  

For now, I will finish the book. Then I'll do what Stephen King recommends and put the manuscript in the drawer for a while. After some mental distance, I'll be better equipped to determine what to keep and what to scrap.

Right now, none of that matters to me. What matters to me is that I finish what I started, that I write 50k words during National Novel Writing Month.

I think I can, I think I can...