NaNoWriMo

Wow! November went by way too fast. I decided to do NaNoWriMo this year. I had no new ideas for a story, but I really wanted to do it. I got an idea from a fellow NaNoWriMo writer and went for it. I got super close to winning, but didn't quite make it. The thing that makes me mad about it is it's my own fault. I had a day last week that I had planned on spending prety much all day writing to get caught up, but let myself get talked into wasting the whole day doing nothing productive. I did manage to make it to 45,500 words before I went to bed on Wednesday night. With that one extra day, I know I could have made it. I really wish I had won, because I'm pretty sure that next November, I'll be even busier, but I did get way farther than I did last time I attempted it. I only got to 12000 that time, so this is a major improvement. Also, I've never written anything this long before in my entire life, so that's really cool too. The longest story I've ever written before now was about 28,000 words. This one is still not finished, and actually has quite a bit to go.
Here's a chart of my progress during the month of November. It's a little bit off, because I always updated my word count the day after and didn't have a chance to update the last two days, so push all the colors back a day, and add two green ones onto the end, and that's how I did.

Red means I was way under the goal for the day (1667 words), Yellow means I was a little bit under, Orange means I was over the goal, and Green means I was way over.

Now that November is over, I have time to do all those things that I didn't do during November because I was working on this story, like reading books...  and planning for work...., but eventually, I'll get around to finishing this story... after I have a break.