NaNo

[seekingferret]

I flamed out on NaNo pretty spectacularly this year. Just over 16,000 words, none written in the last week and a half. Considering I was trying to write excruciatingly dense fanfiction for an extraordinarily complicated postmodern novel I only finished reading in October while work exploded around me, I don't feel terrible about my failure. Also, I've stopped caring about NaNo as an excuse to write novels and pretty much only regard the writing of the novel as the buy-in for getting to hang out with interesting people and write and talk about writing. So there's that.

Given that, I went to November 30th's last-minute write-in despite not wanting to work on my NaNo novel. It was a nice crowd, I got to cheer on a thirteen year old as he worked his way from 48,500 to 50,000, and I poked at Yuletide for a while (net increase in wordcount of 300 words over two and a half hours, though I wrote and deleted another thousand words) and then we went out to eat cake and celebrate the successes of this year's NaNo.


Whilst eating cake, we kept checking on cyannas's NaNo profile. Despite giving birth in the first week of November, despite not having any words written until the midway point of the month, she rallied and as we refreshed the NaNo site we watched as her wordcount for the day climbed above 17,000 words and she hit 50,000 six minutes before midnight. It was really exciting.