Update: NaNo

That's it. That's enough for today. However:

*ahem*

5900 words done today. Tomorrow, all it'll take is 1731 words to take me to victory. And that, friends and neighbours, is more than doable.

Of course, it's probably more than that as a lot of it will be rewriting notes, so my count will fluctuate throughout the day, but as long as I have 50k total words of actual story bits, I've won. And all those notes were written today anyway, just so I'd have something to go on to make tomorrow easier. So there we go. I know where I'm going, I know what I'm doing, I actually finished chapter twelve when I didn't intend to, and now if I type too much more today, I'm going to go psychotic. So ... let's not.

For the win!!!

CELEBRATION!!!

*ahem*

*points to icon*

51,159 according to the word count validator on the NaNoWriMo website. Without the notes about Chapters Fifteen and Sixteen, and the chunk of Chapter Fifteen that's already written.

8790 words exactly in spurts over the last 24 hours.

*ahem again*

IWONIWONIWONIWONIWONIWON!

No, the story's not over, but damnit, I haven't felt this good about finishing a NaNo since the first one! Actually, no, I didn't even feel this good then, because the story was crap, but hell, it was actually the starting point for this one so years of failure to produce a decent story at least gave me enough practice to start getting it right!

*ahem again*

All this to say that the attempt to reach 50k words in a month is not the pointless challenge it seems. It keeps you going on the story no matter what. It gives you something to work towards. If I hadn't had that, it would have been really easy to put this story off and put it off and put it off and ... well, hell with it. I have fourteen chapters down on paper, another part written, another annotated and ready to be turned into a chapter (as thirteen and fourteen were when I thought I was done for the night) and I think I know how it's all going to end. So it'd be stupid of me to stop now. (Plus I think mitchy and the_blonde_one at minimum would have heart attacks.)

*happydances* Congratulatory smoke, and then ... I'm too keyed up to sleep, aren't I? Wonder if there should be chapter fifteen...

*notes lack of circulation in freezing hands, pain in back*

...Maybe not.