Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

I won NaNoWriMo.  Yay.  :snoopy dance:

I hit my word count last night at 9:41pm.  At which point, I fell apart.

Okay, so I held together just long enough to verify my words with the site and get my goodies.  I put up my new NaNo badge and then fell apart.

50210* words into my novel and yes, I have at least 20K to go.  50K words - about half of which are total crap.  But I said I was going to do it and I did.  Now I'm done.  I know I can write more words today and add them to my total, but I think I'm going to take a little break.  I need a break.  I've earned a break.  I'm taking one.  So there.  =op

Why?

Because now I'm so very tired.  I get like this with a big project.  I bust my buns accomplishing the task and then once it's complete, I turn to mush.  "Fall apart afterwards," I always say.

On the agenda for today?  All the house cleaning I neglected for the past month so I can put up Christmas decorations tomorrow.  Yay.

What are your post November plans?  Do you ramp up for big projects and then collapse when they're over?

*My MS Word count.  NaNo verification ended up different.  Which is why I had to write another few paragraphs to make the NaNo verifier catch up and why the counts don't match. 

4 comments:

  1. I'm in the "fall apart afterwards" camp, as well. Although that usually only lasts for a few days. Then I get REALLY antsy and want to beat my projects into serious shape.

    Which isn't very productive, either, because I want to sit down at the computer and have it MAGICALLY be awesome.

    Oh well.

    Congrats! :)

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  2. Congratulations, B.E. - way to go :)

    And I think a lot of people had issues with the word count thing - bottom line is you did it!!

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  3. I still have relatives over and yes, I may collapse when they leave!

    Congrats on winning Nano! Woohoo! I'm sure you'll do great with the next 20K words!

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  4. Woohoo! Congrats on reaching 50! I also won but have another 40-50k to write. That's what December is for.

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