Well, NaNoWriMo is finally over, and I didn't win. I got about 30,000 words though, I feel good about that. We had the 'thank god it's over' party last night; I really had fun talking to the people in the Lexington NaNo group.

You want to know the one thing that's really funny about my Nano? Most of the Lexington group *did* finish the 50,000; I did *not*, yet somehow they were all impressed with the fact that I did reach 30,000 words, because I wrote most of that--say about 22,000 words of the 30,000--in longhand. On real paper, with a pen, with my right hand occasionally going *cramp!* on me. I probably would have made 50,000 had I typed all of it, but I do like looking at the notebooks that have my writing in it, and realizing I wrote *that*.

My story is no way close to being finished; as it is, I want to go back and rewrite what I did write already--not merely editing, but wholesale rewrites--before I plow on with the rest of the story. However, the plot is not what bothers me, just the writing itself, meaning I at least have an outline/plotline to follow. And certain characters are already falling in line for me, as I wrote those 30,000... Whee! Never had a story as big as this come together like that.

Also, if I haven't replied on anything in your lj in the last half of November, I quit reading LJ on Nov 14, and am currently trying to catch up on everybody's lives.

Well, NaNoWriMo is finally over, and I didn't win. I got about 30,000 words though, I feel good about that. We had the 'thank god it's over' party last night; I really had fun talking to the people in the Lexington NaNo group.

You want to know the one thing that's really funny about my Nano? Most of the Lexington group *did* finish the 50,000; I did *not*, yet somehow they were all impressed with the fact that I did reach 30,000 words, beacuse I wrote most of that--say about 22,000 words of the 30,000--in longhand. On real paper, with a pen, with my right hand occasionally going *cramp!* on me. I probably would have made 50,000 had I typed all of it, but I do like looking at the notebooks that have my writing in it, and realizing I wrote *that*.

My story is no way close to being finished; as it is, I want to go back and rewrite what I did write already--not merely editing, but wholesale rewrites--before I plow on with the rest of the story. However, the plot is not what bothers me, just the writing itself, meaning I at least have an outline/plotline to follow. And certain characters are already falling in line for me, as I wrote those 30,000... Whee! Never had a story as big as this come together like that.

Also, if I haven't replied on anything in your lj in the last half of November, I quit reading LJ on Nov 14, and am currently trying to catch up on everybody's lives.