Almost Disaster and Aftermath

November is over along with NaNo. I spent so much of the month getting ready for book signings, club meetings and chores my novel languished.
The last week began with me down 32,000 words. Failure was my daily companion.
The novel plot began to roll along. Ridge had his car and was driving toward trouble. The word count began to climb.
It is amazing how fast you can type in the throes of a breakneck novel scene.
It is amazing how fast exciting scenes play out, roaring through their climax driving toward their resolution 8,000 words short of the NaNo goal.
What on Earth can fill up those thousands of words with three days to go?
Back story for characters. Epilogues for the characters. Creative adjective and adverb and preposition filled prose mounts up.
Yes, I did manage to fill out 50,000 words, 15,000 of them in two days. The first draft is written. It is a writer's nightmare right now.
But the novel has possibilities. All it needs is some solid research, blending of the two main story lines and rewriting to become a real novel. At least the novel has started on the road to presentable.