National Novel Writing Month Winner Badge

National Novel Writing Month Winner Badge

I was going to type ‘welcome back’ but YOU never left.1  It was me who has been gone for over a month now and am ready to get back to some blogging.

Because I know you’re all wondering how it went, let me give you a bit of a run down. Generally, I think it was a stunning success. For my personal writing, I proved to myself that I can write 50,000 in a month even without much writing time during the day at work and while performing all my Municipal Liaison duties. As I expected, I didn’t finish my story,2 but I got a good chunk of it done.  As an organizer, we had record numbers of participants, winners, activities, and donations. On a grand scale, our region had teeny tiny problems for its size. So, I’m very happy with how the month went.

I learned a lot through the month of chaos and creativity but I’ll just skip to the parts likely to interest you most . . .

  1. I still love doing it, even when I have to organize it.
  2. I have a tendency to be verbose with my writing.3
  3. I have a million more ideas about writing AND about organizing things for next year.

From what I can tell, there’s a lot of positive energy surrounding the NaNoWriMo experience this year. 4  I want to keep the momentum going with the organization and with my own writing as well, so it looks like there will be no ‘off season’ for me.  For those who enjoy my story geekness posts, this probably won’t be a problem for you.  For those who don’t, you may find my blog less interesting.  Now, there will still be other geekness topics celebrated, but they may not be as frequent as my story geekness ones.5

Part of the aftermath for me is the slow return to normal life and a celebration of the awesome that has just passed.  We generally like to celebrate awesome, with more awesome, because we are awesome like that.  Part of my celebration is going on right now (and I’m kind of missing it).  You see, BenevoLance just finished a particularly big, tough, un-fun course.  While he was stuck in the dregs and doldrums of it, I suggested he plan something big and fun for the end of it, to give him something to look forward to aside from the end of the tedious course.  So, a big and fun LAN party was planned.6  He even took today off of work, so there are a bunch of boys at my house right now playing computer games in my living room and eating yummy food and drinking our booze and I will get to join in the fun after I finish working this afternoon (155 minutes left to go).7

  1. At least I’m hoping you didn’t leave! [↩]
  2. Don’t bother asking when I’ll finish or what the story is about [↩]
  3. Ok, so maybe I didn’t learn that this year, but it’s still true [↩]
  4. Perhaps I should say, the VanCoWriMo experience, since we coined our own regional nickname this year [↩]
  5. In fact, I’ve a few posts that I’ve got planned out already [↩]
  6. Yes, I suggested the LAN party because I’m awesome like that [↩]
  7. Lucky for me, the party is going to go all night until sometime tomorrow.  I just hope the food and booze last that long! [↩]

Related posts:

  1. NaNoWriMo Badges are Ready! Have you got yours?
  2. NaNoWriMo 2010 Wrap Up
  3. Break for NaNoWriMo