NaNoWriMo Winner
☆WINNER.☆
I did it. I actually did it. November month is over, and though I doubted I would make it (because I had a writer's block a while), after making a final 6000 words sprint the last day, I did it...
NaNoWriMo 2006
South of the Stars
Final Wordcount: ★ 50,363 ★
I know that most people that have done NaNoWriMo with having school and work and stuff to do will probably just snort at my 50,363 words as I, after all, only have school two days a week and have nothing else IRL that is standing in the way for me to write. But to me, this is huge. Why? Because before NaNoWriMo, a really good day would be if I wrote 1000 words. x3 But now, the personal record for amount of words written in one day is 6000 words, and really, I am damn proud.
Yes. Me. Proud. Don't burst my bubble, I haven't really been proud of anything I've written before.
You know me. You know I always find something wrong with what I write. That's why this is good, yes? Quantity, not quality, and then suddenly I can be proud of something that I have done. It's a huge change.
I was a cranky, perfectionist writer, who was still suffering from the aftermath of the one-year long writer's block I had in 2005, so I was still not quite as much "in shape" as one would think. x3 But I did it thanks to you all, didn't I? *laughs*
Thank you... everyone who wished me good luck. Everyone who showed interest in knowing what I was writing about. Everyone who cheered me on throughout November. Everyone who showed interest in the possibility of getting to read it. Everyone who told me I was insane. xD
Special thanks to...
crimefish for sitting on the chair next to me while I wrote the first few thousands of words.
xkotakux for being my NaNo buddy, right? *laughs* Next year, same madness? Counting the days. *dorky grin*
0kiwi0 for your support. xD Clicking up a conversation windows just to cheer me on when I was writing? *laughs* Especially thanks for the last day.
sugar_pai_n for your continued support, especially in the end. *smiles* You helped me more than you realise. xD
I know a lot of other people supported me, too, and would all be very worthy of mentioning, but I must say, those four people made most of the difference, perhaps because they gave support when I was actually writing. x3 Supporting words, wordwars, helpful (or just plain funny xD) comments. You know, that sort of things. Actively being interested. ^-^ Thanks.
Okay, enough of the cheese, right? xD
What now?
Well, NaNoWriMo is over, but South of the Stars is only at the beginning, so I will now take a few days break from it, just thinking about what I want to do with it. If I should cut it short, if I should finish it, if it's worth rewriting and things like that, you know. *laughs* My mother has been telling me to absolutely not post it online (because it's original work), but I'm not sure yet.
But to all that seem to want to read South of the Stars... You know I can't favouritize anyone of you, right? If someone gets to read it, it is if I post it here on my LJ. x3
In other news...
December.
My birthday is coming up the 19th December, and I won't really do anything to celebrate. Although they have scheduled a meeting at the handicap centre on my birthday, which ruined my plans of staying home all day and not talk to anyone. Crapfuck, right. Anyway, I will update Cold Crush Gate with a new chapter sometime soon, I hope, and also finish a few oneshots I started before November, and might write a little Christmas oneshot if I've got the time.
As for Christmas gifts, I can't even afford the poststamps right now. It costs 10 kronor to send a normal, flat letter to someone in Europe, I think. That's a lot, were I to just send normal letters to people, let alone gifts. So those that get something, it is if we have talked about something that I want to send/draw/write/whatever.
(´ - `) Sorry.
Also worth mentioning is that "hoggy", the Swedish website that I used to post my stories on back in the days, is closing, and opening a new website, which I, unfortunately, won't be joining. This is because I would have to pay 10 kronor every third month or so through SMS to join, and I don't have a cell phone so that doesn't work. I have asked VPFPH, though, and it seems to me that I will still be part of VPFPH even if I don't join? Am I right or am I wrong? Well, they might start a LJ community, they said, so I guess we'll see if they actually do, right. A lot of them don't have a LJ account, though, so I'm wondering how that would go. Hm. Well, I'll keep my fingers crossed for that.
I ramble, don't I.
Sorry. *dorky grin*
Hope everyone's well and safe. <3
- Coke