I've Won NaNoWriMo!
Yep, I tipped the 50,000 word scale this morning around 10h30 and am actually a little over the required count at 50,250 words as of today. I plugged it into the Nano website and the crowd went wild! Actually, I got an exploding badge of Congratulations and that was good too. Not Actually Finished As expected, I think I'm only about half way through my novel. My characters are only just coming together now (Looking For Group) with quite a few adventures left on the storyboard. I'm optimistically estimating the halfway mark because I'm desperately trying to get the protagonists and antagonists together for a good 'ol Donnybrook and the arch-demon just sent my major villain to a complete 'nother country ffs. It's like herding cats. Keep Writing And that's the biggest lesson I've learned this month is to keep on writing no matter what. Also, I've learned to just mindlessly write the story as it comes to me (or not) and not worry about editing as I go