What can I say. I did what I came to do today. It took me a bit longer than I’d hoped (I’d planned to be done around 22:00, but finished 23:10) but that was largely down to a couple of hours of “I don’t want this to end” block this afternoon.
Once I was over that it wasn’t exactly plain sailing – some of the writing was decidedly scrappy – but I did manage to make it relatively smoothly. And yes, the last two words of the 166,661 in total were “The End”.
As it is I’m tired, but elated, and – well if I could describe it, I would. It’s been a hell of a month (even with some 40 minutes still left to go I feel comfortably saying that), and I’m not sure I want to know just how much I’ve typed. I’ll safe a definite guestimate on that for tomorrow, or maybe the day after, when I hope to do a retrospective on another NaNoWriMo.
A few little things now:
- Every end-of-day wordcount this month was a palindrome
- My final “daily average” wordcount – 5,555 – is also a palidrome
- My surplus percetage 233.32% too much, is also a palindrome
- Finishing 50k on day 8 is my second fasted 50k ever
- Doing 16,462 words on day 8 is my biggest writing day ever
- Getting 100k on day 18 is my fastest 100k ever
- And 166,661 one is my best final score for NaNoWriMo by over 40k
And finally: I’m very, very, very glad I took tomorrow off to recover from this month, and the 22k I put in this final weekend. I think I need a bit of a rest now. And some time to catch up with a lot of things, even if I am currently too tired to remember what they might be.
Congratulations! On all the pretty numbers, on all the new records, but most of all on finishing your story!
I hope you recover well today and take it easy, you really earned it
And thanks for all the support during NaNo and the little bit of racing, you were qutie the motivator.
As for all the support your welcome. There were days when the though of you gaining too much on me was what kept me going as well, I think we owe each other something on that score.
As for the pretty numbers: I’ll do a full ‘retrospective’ post later today, or maybe tomorrow morning, with a lot more numbers. And I’m thinking of actually just putting my wordcount sheet for this year up on the site. Lots and lots of numbers in that one
I’m looking forward to see it.