Ladies and Gentlebeings, We Have a Winner!

[redbyrd_sgfic]

It's not that I thought I couldn't do it...less than 1700 words a day isn't actually that bad. But I wasn't sure if I would do it, if that makes sense. And there were a couple of days when life happened and I was over 10,000 words behind schedule going into the last week. (I made it all up over the holiday weekend, including 7800 words on Sunday

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[aelfgyfu_mead]

That's a huge amount to make up! Congratulations on it all!

[a_phoenixdragon]

I'm so proud of you!! and yes - I would love to see more writing from you again....kinda miss it!

*Huggles*

[loriel_eris]

Woohoo! Go you! *g*

[aizjanika]

Congratulations! Yay!

I have done similar things--writing 8000 or or so words in a day before. It *can* be fun. :-) I wrote my first year's novel almost entirely in Word Wars in the mIRC chat that NaNo used to have on its site.

[redbyrd_sgfic]

I think it would have been more fun if I could have taken the month off from work. *g* Okay, *everything* would be more fun if I could take the month off from work!

It's been kind of a sucky fall- my only really good commute route is under construction, so my commute time has doubled most days. And work has been busy- I've had to do a fair amount of overtime to keep up. So adding on NaNo was a stretch. I really couldn't work more than a couple of hours most evenings, and some of the weekend days we were traveling or had company (which is how I fell behind). I really couldn't do any of the social stuff, I just had to stay focused on the writing. But hey, it worked! And now I feel like working on other writing projects is a lot more do-able.

[aizjanika]

:-) That's sort of how I felt in my first year, especially when I won. I had never written anything that long that fast. Suddenly it seemed possible, and I realized that even if I only dedicated an hour or even less per day to writing, I could still accomplish something if I kept at it.

I think lyraeinne learned that this year, too. She wrote around 35,000 words, so she didn't win, but it's the longest story she's ever written.

[redbyrd_sgfic]

*nods* Exactly! Even though I've written longer stuff, I've never done it this fast. And since getting the first draft complete is where I tend to be stuck, this is rather useful.

[neiths_arrow]

Congratulations! Woo Hoo! Yeeeeeee Haaaawwwww!!!!! You dit it!