So you didn't win NaNoWriMo this year. You should still be proud of yourself for trying even if you fell short.

If you passed the 50,000 word finish line and became an official NaNoWriMo winner yesterday, you were riding high. It was so much fun to watch people all over the world celebrating their victories on Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook with animated GIFs, four letter words and lots and lots of exclamation points. (And, in one memorable instance, party salad!) It was a glorious celebration of the triumph of determination over procrastination and caffeine over pesky sleep.

Or, at least, it was if you w...