Another Nanowrimo has come and gone and, well, I have to admit that I.....
WON!!!
Cue the fireworks, the balloons, & the marching band.
I have to say, though, that it was a little bit more difficult than I had naively thought in my last post. I was constantly playing catch up with my word count and it wasn't until the last 3 days of the challenge that I finally decided to shut myself off from the rest of the world and apply the BIC method to increase my word count. In case you weren't aware of it, BIC stands for Butt In Chair and sometimes that's the only method that works. It was just me, my laptop, a cup of tea & reruns of The IT Crowd playing in the background to keep me company.
I ended up with about 70,000 words, which is great but I still haven't technically finished my story yet. It's about 3/4 of the way done and I probably won't even think about looking at those words again until January. I figure it will take at least that long for me to get rid of the curious side effects that seem to afflict me every time participate in Nanowrimo. I'm convinced that Nano has caused me to morph into my own special version of Lady Redundant Woman from PBS' Word Girl.
(Yes, I did just reference a kid's cartoon show. Snicker if you must.)
I foresee whole blocks of prose being cut because of this. I also had to learn to use apostrophes and hyphens, again, and to shake this annoying habit of using 20 adjectives/adverbs per sentence. Thank goodness for the revision process. The upside is that I already have my whole story plotted out and I'm on a first name basis with all of my characters.
All in all, I'm happy that I decided to participate this year and I look forward to doing it again in 2010.
