NaNoWriMo: 2022

[mistressofmuses]

I won! Kinda!

So, this NaNo I did run into the issue that the story I'd chosen to work on... really wasn't a 50k story. I'd hoped it would maybe grow into the higher word total (a lot of my stuff does that), but... alas, no. I plodded through it, despite not being a huge fan of my attempts to pad the story somewhat, but it's really more of a 25k or 30k novella, I think, unless I can think up some radical way to restructure it.

Then real-life stuff went to shit (mom with covid! sibling with covid! mass shooting!) and really put me off part of the story I was meant to be writing. (I got to the point where the next scene was a sex scene, and boy did I feel anything but excited to write smut.)

So while I DID write 50k (and in fact ended the month with 54139 words)... it wasn't all on the intended project. I wrote some on one different story (the fantasy werewolf one that had been the other one under consideration for the month) and then a lot of kind-of meta-y stuff writing ABOUT writing. So... several thousand words aren't really part of the story in question, but hey, I WROTE 50k ANYWAY.

So I'm counting it, but it doesn't really feel like a completely legitimate win. Alas.

I was going to try to put together my December goals (HOLY FUCK IT'S DECEMBER) but... maybe tomorrow.