Post-NaNo Blues

I hit 50k yesterday so I'm officially DONE with NaNo. In the end, I wrote two novellas and one short story. The novellas don't seem very promising right now but I like the short and might develop it further  eventually.

I always get a little lost and confused when NaNo ends, because after spending a month forcing my brain to work twice as hard as usual, I forget what it is I do when I'm not on a crazy deadline. Wait, I DON'T have to churn out a thousand words right this minute? I can do something else? Whoa.

I hope to spend the next couple days doing things like cleaning the house and reading things I didn't write. I will probably also play more World of Warcraft than is strictly healthy and go out for food and/or a movie with the long-suffering Mr. Frost, who just this week looked around and wondered aloud why the house is so dirty. (It's November. That's why.)

Once I recover from NaNo and feel like writing again, I'm likely to pick up that Canadian-Japanese urban fantasy draft I finished in October. I believe that drafts need to sleep at least four weeks before they're ready for the first editing round so this one is about ready to get kicked around. I'm a bit scared to work on it because it's got so much potential and what if I screw it up, ahhhhh.