NaNo: Confession Time!

Well, it’s December 2, and NaNoWriMo 2013 finished at midnight on November 30, two days ago.
If you’ve been stopping by this site lately, you know I gleefully (okay, maniacally) joined over 300,000 writers around the globe taking part in the annual frenzy of National Novel Writing Month, vowing to write 50,000 new words of a novel in 30 days.

I’ve won NaNo before, in 2009 and 2010. But for the past two years, I’ve failed rather pathetically.

I went in with deep humility, really not sure if I was...