For the third year in a row: "Hey, I could probably pull it off this year. Why not give it a shot?" Thrity days later: "Wait, it was November?!!?! Since when? I thought we were still in October! ;.;"
My first year I didn't win, but I reached 37k and finished my draft. Won the next three years, but this year I just couldn't get it churned out. Ah, well. On the plus side, I did more writing in November than I have in recent months, so that's a win of one sort.
I came up short with 32,015, but I'm not too disappointed. It was my first year, and this is probably the longest work I've ever done! Plus, I actually finished the story, at this point I really just need to elaborate more and add back in a plot line that I dropped early on
I finished! I even put in double the word count on the last few days so that I would finish before Thanksgiving! Heaven only knows if I'll ever end up taking a second look at that draft, but I did learn a lot and it was a good habit to get into, now I feel like if I don't write some each day I'm wasting away my life!
'Cause your own story, is the safest place you'll ever be ~Echosmith
I was on the last day, and decided that with 6 hours of straight writing at my normal speed, I'd get the last 20K in easy. Then there was a change of plans. So instead of going home and writing in my homeland, I was writing on a plane.
Apparently planes can help your concentration. A lot. And so after 7 hours on two planes, I had the 20K written. But when I got off the plane and into a place with wi-fi, it was 1:00 in the morning, December 1st.
“I am not worried, Harry," said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. "I am with you.” — Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
