I finished on the 25th, primarily because I've been doing Nano since 2004 so it's not really anything new to me. It's actually gotten pretty boring at this point. However, it did provoke me to write again, and it's made me start developing a new novel project from scratch. This, of course, when I should actually be writing my master's thesis.

I just squeaked by with 50,008 words, but I'm very happy with how it went and I got to write in a 'verse I've been meaning to flesh out for a while now.

I had some points where I fell rather far behind, but I caught up in the end. Too bad the fic itself isn't actually finished yet... must find the motivation to do that...

First time, I didn't actually find out what NaNoWriMo was until halfway through the month. Second time, I was working on my Girl Scout Gold Award project, and this year I was busting my butt with college applications.

Here's hoping I'll actually have time next year.

I fell apart about two weeks in, and by halfway through the third, I knew it wasn't going to happen. I ended at... 16,000? Something like that?

No regrets, though, and it got me back into the habit of writing. Now I'm looking forward to going back to writing short stories, and starting a PPC spin-off, finally.

I failed. The end. Will try again later. Congrats to those who made it.

Real Life got in the way. Phoo. Oh well.

Could you give me a link to your story, pretty please? I'd like to read it.

It's been a slightly disruptive time, with an uncertain schedule and things changing--in a good way, fortunately; but such things are not conducive to writing. Also, I think I'm being held hostage by my unfinished NaNovel from last year. I don't know if I can work seriously on anything else until I finish it and fix it and make it respectable. But it's haaaaard....

On the upside, I HAVE worked on compiling a list of Germanic names and a glossary of their elements and meanings, which I enjoyed immensely and will most likely continue to build on as I discover new elements. Also, I'll probably end up doing a similar thing for other language groups if my characters ever spend much time in a location with a different language--I figure differentiating names between peoples is the easiest way I can indicate a different language without actually knowing or inventing them. So, you know, if you ever need an Old English/Norse/German-sounding name and want to know what it means, let me know. You'd have to figure out which permutations of the elements belong to which branch if it matters to you, though, 'cause I didn't keep track. ^_^;

~Neshomeh, amateur anthroponomatologist.

School was a big obstacle for me - 400-level classes soak up time, and it's all interesting enough stuff that I want to study it. On the plus side, NaNo gave me something I could "procrastinate" at in favor of studying.

Also, I started to care too much about writing well and keeping my plot consistent. I'm going to finish the story, but it's going to take more than 30 days.