Throwing in the towel

I’m done with NaNoWriMo word counting.  My work has gone from an attempt at artificially bulking up word counts to become a real story.  Thus, I have been spending more time on working out how plots will come together, and less on getting the words in.

Due to my change of focus, I am currently 15,961 words behind the line.  NaNo stats say that I should write 5657 words a day from now until the end of the month in order to catch up.  To put that into perspective, my best daily word count was 5202 words.  It’s not something that would be impossible, if all I wanted to do was make up the word count.

I do not, however, consider this to be a failure.  In my opinion, the main purpose of NaNoWriMo is not to write 50,000 words of crap.  It is to write, period.  In that way, I consider my NaNo to be a success.  I have written.  I have a workable story, although it needs some major overhauling.  And I have something that I, personally, am proud of.  It’s currently a tangled mess.  It will probably be rewritten almost from scratch.  But it’s a story that has made it down onto (virtual) paper.

As promised, I will make another posting concerning the lessons I learned during this foray into fiction.  That, however, will be a post for another day.