NaNoWriMo! (and time management)

So as I'd decided back at the end of October/beginning of November, I did participate in NaNoWriMo... sort of.

While I did declare a project, I also declared my enthusiastic intent to cheat. I had so much to catch up on: I was a good six weeks behind on my habit tracking (and the journalling that goes with it; I don't post the journal part, but I do generally write up a quick summary of the day), I still have five fics from the AUgust fic challenge I signed up for, I fell behind on a lot of the things that I ordinarily try to post to Dreamwidth, like hikes or other things that we went out to do...

There was absolutely zero chance that I could catch up on all of that while also writing an additional 50k for the month. My intent was therefore to utilize all of that stuff I needed to catch up on, plus any other words I wrote via posts and comments and journal entries and such, toward my wordcount.

It was... something of a success.

I wrote more than 50k!

( Shockingly, this got long. Mostly rambling about the month and about some time-management realizations: )