I win at Nanowrimo even more!

[taylweaver]

So, as of about five minutes ago, I met both of my ultimate goals for Nanowrimo this year: I passed the 100,000 word mark (which is to say, twice the amount needed to win) and I also managed to finish my novel - with 20 minutes to spare!

Annoying thing I discovered about Word: It doesn't display word counts on the bottom of the page past 100,000.

Final word count according to Word: 102,936
Final word count according to Nanowrimo counter: 103,478

Either way, I won, and I am done.

Granted, I'm not so thrilled with how the ending came out...

And there's all this other stuff I didn't quite manage to get done this evening...

And now, I don't know what I will do with my time. It's been so great to just write.

But I finished it.

Comments

[levana-b.livejournal.com]

Start NanoEmo, of course!

Which is either a small, depressed creature or National Novel Editing Month!

[taylweaver.livejournal.com]

No, no. They call that one Nanoedmo, with a d.

And I have to let it sit for a bit before editing.

What I really should be doing this month is editing last year's, which I put on hold for the month. But it's so much more fun to write than to edit.

[boroparkpyro.livejournal.com]

congratulations!!!!!

when do we all get to read your book?

[taylweaver.livejournal.com]

When it's a *second* draft.:)

That's when I will ask people to read it for me and offer feedback. But first, it goes into a metaphorical locked drawer for a month at least.

[margavriel.livejournal.com]

A month? No, nine years!

http://motspluriels.arts.uwa.edu.au/MP598tu.html

Thus did Horace in the Ars Poetica advise the aspiring author: "if at any time you do write anything [...] then put the papers away and keep them for nine years. You can always destroy what you have not published, but once you have let your words go they cannot be taken back" (Ars Poetica in Classical Literary Criticism, ed. T. S. Dorsch, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1965, p. 92).

[taylweaver.livejournal.com]

Well, I guess things move more quickly these days.

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

Hurrah!

[taylweaver.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

I love the Super Grover. He makes me smile every time. :)