On the last day, I managed to careen face-first in a half run, half fall across the finish line. My MS Word doc proudly displays “50,001” in the bottom left corner, which means, somehow, I did it. Oddly, the NaNoWriMo site validated it as 50,069, so I guess I got 68 words for free.
It’s a mess of notes and fragments and ill formed nonsense in a lot of places, but that doesn’t matter. It’s done. And I don’t have to look at it again for a long time. I will come back to edit eventually, as I love the premise and the heart of the stories I’ve written, but for now, to the depth of my Google Drive it goes.
I’m glad I tried it this year, despite my other priorities. It wasn’t nearly as smooth as last year, and the final product is a much hotter, stinkier mess, but I still feel like I learned a lot about myself and how I write. I’m probably going to try NaBloPoMo next year instead, so this victory might have to last me until November 2014 (Side note: Who put those two events in the same month?).
I’ll be back to beer-blogging soon. I’ve got all kinds of ideas lined up for December.
But no more write now. Brain need break. Drink beer. Play video game. Sleep maybe.
But no more write. Soon, but not now.
Yay.
Tagged: champion, eye of the tiger, NaNoWriMo, NaNoWriMo 2012, nothing to do with charlie sheen, win, winning, writing
Congrats! Grab a beer and curl up in the corner with the cats and a video game. You’ve earned it!
Kittehs, Magic Hat Wooly ESB, and Torchlight 2. Done!
Congrats! That’s some impressive stuff. I can’t imagine writing 50,000 words in a month. Maybe I will try that next year.
This year was really sloppy. Last year was much better. 50,000 words really isn’t so bad, if you don’t have 900 other things going on!
Congrats on reaching the 50k mark. It indeed calls for a gaming session infused with a frothy beverage (or maybe spirits shots of if you’re playing Halo or Call of Duty?)
I’d need shots to play CoD or Halo. That “community” is brutal!
I have one more word for you. Respect.
🙂
::Blush::
Congratulations!
Thank you!
I can’t believe you made it! I had a mere 25-30,000 words to write this month and just for school and I’ve barely come out the other side, so it’s very impressive that you got to 50,000. Congratulations!
Also, what is NaNoBloMo? I googled it and I mostly got people talking about NaNoWriMo. My guess has to do with blogging, but would there be a word count or simply a number of posts?
It’s actually NaBloPoMo (National Blog Post Month), my tired brain just typed it wrong. It’s a lot less official than NaNoWriMo, but the idea is to post one blog post a day, all month long.
Congratulations!! Very inspirational to all us NaNoWriMo wannabes. Hoping to join you next year! : )
Awesome! Congrats! I pondered doing it this year… though I didn’t – maybe next year.
Though I will definitely try NaBloPoMo next year!
Way to go – you did it 🙂
NaBloPoMo sounds pretty cool – think I might join you next year for the next quest. Hopefully you’ll post up some links about this for more info.