Which doesn’t qualify me as a Nano winner. Kinda knew in the last couple days I wouldn’t make it. But, I still feel interest in what I wrote, and I think… I’ll continue working on it, at a less frenetic pace.

Thank you, thank you, thank you to all of you for the words of advice, encouragement, the patience. The laughs, too, as I tried this out. Focusing on a goal like this, it had unexpected benefits. Kinda interesting how if you focus your energy a certain direction, it’s almost like you attract other opportunities to you, or something. I donno. Hard to explain.

Lazy Buddhist, Jaynova and Corina are all winners of NaNoWriMo, they all hit it out of the park. I find that impressive.

And I wonder, too, among all the words and ideas that were created this month, what kind of life will they take on now? How will they travel forward, who will they effect? The stories themselves have stories now.

That’s kinda super cool.

Re having a hard time causing your characters pain, I agree. I have to start out knowing a bad thing is going to happen to a character. I’m better prepared for what must happen then.

anhinga – yiou find it hard being mean to your character? i think that’s a protective mechanism some sort. let your character live his/er own life, don’t get too sucked in and you’ll be fine. learn to be somewhat detached, but still involved. like chicken, not pigs.

Anyway, that’s how I’m dealing with it.