Another year, another NaNo over. And as usual I failed to keep up with the official wordcount, and my personal wordcount. But I'm mostly satisfied with the under 10,000 words I wrote this year. Due to the month of November being midterm month in the quarter system, and the last week of November the week before finals, I'm amazed that I wrote anything interesting. I believe this has been my most stressed year while writing.
A look at November and NaNo:
1. My laptop contracted a virus on the 2nd. Since I needed it immediately for school, I decided that I could afford losing all my recent information and factory restored my laptop. There went the first 4,000ish words of my NaNo.2. I asked my roommates and friends for side character names. The most notable: my friend who said that she would name my prison 'Jared', which is rather funny because one of the guys who lives across the hall is named Jared. This led to the nearby tavern's name "Jared's Stomach".
3. While NaNo did help me keep awake during my 60 and 132 classes, it hadn't kept me awake for my 100 class, most notably since I'd been up all night writing an essay.
4. I have decided that a Goat would be a yearly tradition. This is where I randomly insert a goat into my story and see what happens.
5. I have finally stepped out of my comfort circle in regards to writing. Or at least, I started to. My perfect characters are no longer perfect and have even made me uncomfortable. Now, to write them out of that uncomfortableness. If I even want to...
6. Crazy apartment goingons have put a whole new perspective on a 'crazy' character.
