Holy fuck I finished NaNo!

[nenya_kanadka]

I clocked in tonight at either 50,847 or 51,047 or 50,890 words, depending which word count tool you use (first one's the NaNoWriMo website). It's not one novel, but four (FOUR!) short stories. Two of them were existing works in progress which I finished off, one a brand-new from-scratch origfic, and one a fic I put up mid-month under my sekrit sock. The other stuff will need a bit of revision, but I have SO MUCH more to work from now than I did at the beginning of the month.

Holy shit. I...did it? I always thought NaNo was much too lofty of a goal for me, but now I see how it works. Or how I can make it work for me. I might do it again. But probably not for a while (e.g. next year) or at a greatly reduced wordcount rate (750words.com may see more activity from me) because I would like to have a life and spend time with my wife and not stress so much and so on.

I knocked up a silly cover to put on the NaNo website. It has nothing to do with the contents of any of the short stories, except that some of them contain what you might call depiction-not-endorsement:



In vaguely related news, Mucca and I bought one of those hollow books (where you store your keys/flash drive/secret plans for the death star inside a book that's been hollowed out) at a craft fair. We found the entire display--which contained everything from a Star Trek TNG novel to a flight manual from about 1971 to Defense Against The Dark Arts Vol I to cookbooks to the What Katy Did omnibus--far too hilarious. I won't say which one I got in case I ever need to hide anything from any of you by means of my bookshelf. ;)

Now off to go watch some episodes of Frankie & Grace to celebrate my NaNo win while we still have our Netflix trial screw around online for a few hours. Whoot!

(Feelings about current Doctor Who and about Jessica Jones: I have them! Many of them! I am, however, not awake enough to blog them. Feel free to discuss anything you like in comments, though! (kore, this means you.))

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[vjs2259.livejournal.com]

*quietly rejoices*

[nenya_kanadka]

I saw that you crossed the finish line too! Hurray! Though your project seems far more ambitious. *continues cheerleading*

[scripsi.livejournal.com]

Yay you!

[nenya_kanadka]

I am kind of impressed despite myself, lol! I mean I really never thought I could do NaNo, even though my mom and sister do it all the time. So, rejoice! :D

[scripsi.livejournal.com]

Well, I have never dared to try. :)