NaNoWriMo Year 3 Win

Belatedly reporting that I have my winner goodies from the NaNoWriMo website. Yay! I'm liking the fireworks theme this year. I'm glad to have crossed the finish line again this year, but I haven't finished my rewrites. Actually, I crossed the finish line on Tuesday, Nov. 17 and promptly dropped it in favor of Thanksgiving preparation, then later for Christmas preparation. (There's a lot to think about for a planaholic like me, but that'll be a different post). I only hope that I don't take this year's early win and challenge myself to win earlier and earlier. I have to admit that dropping the intensive writing mode was a bit of a relief, though.

The new scenes I wrote will make me change the ending. I have successfully avoided romantic scenes again this year. And I still have to integrate the new bits into the old bits. Over the Christmas holiday, I've transferred the first and second drafts into my new writing software on the PC. As I did so, I did some re-reading and I'm appalled at some of the scenes. Perhaps I should have deleted those outright. But as I'm still trying to figure out how to use Liquid Story Binder, I'll hang on to them for now. Maybe I'll be able to hone them into something better later. I'm glad I fleshed out some of the characters this year. They were only caricatures previously. I deliberately wrote in their points of view this time around so I could get to know them better, particularly my antagonist. There's still one main player I don't fully understand. But considering she inserted herself into the story the first year, I don't feel so bad waiting on knowing who she really is.

Overall, it was a satisfying, if shorter, Novel Writing Month. I'm sure I'll find a way to do it again next year.