NaNoWriMo is over! I got all of the badges except for the one for writing par (1,667 words every day), but that's okay with me. My own success was much more notable than that: I never once fell below the daily par, and I worked on it every single day, not even missing Thanksgiving. Those are both accomplishments that I've never managed before, and I've been doing NaNoWriMo since 2006.
My final word count for the month was 51,767, after I wrote 1,500 words at our "final push" write-in last night. Of course, that includes 36 hours of revision work, which took up the majority of the month, but it was necessary to pick my story back up where I left off.
Today I added back in all of the previous words I'd written and disregarded during NaNoWriMo. The revised part I wrote last year, plus the new part of the story written this year add up to a surprising 72,030 words. I didn't realize the novel had gotten so long! This is especially concerning since I feel like I'm only about halfway through the story. There are section in the part I've already written that could be cut if the word count gets to be too long, but first I want to finish it and see what the final length is like.
I created a new goal for the month of December, with the hopes of finishing the novel by the end of the year. I set the goal for 100,000, despite some internal debate about increasing that to 120,000. I ultimately decided that I'd rather set the goal for 100,000 and overshoot it, than to set it for 120,000 and fall short. I think the final word count will probably be closer to 120,000, but I'm considering that the upper end of the range instead of a goal.
Ostensibly, my goal will be to write at least 1,000 words a day, with hopefully more than that on "good" days. Hopefully that will get me through the end of the novel by the end of the year, and early next year I can work on revising.
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