Oops, I Left You Hanging-The Last NaNoWriMo Post

I was going back over my work for the previous year this week. While looking at my blog posts and realized, I was missing one. I committed a cardinal storytelling sin. I left you hanging. I have you a beginning: a hero (me) and a quest (thirty thousand words in the month of November). I followed up with obstacles in my path (the second week blahs and writer’s block). Then I, and this is a shock to me, never told you how it ended. Please accept my apologies, and this post.

So, I guess the big question is this; thrill of victory or agony of defeat? I’m sad to report, it was the latter, but proud to say not by much. I managed to get down twenty-eight thousand plus words. Why not push ahead to get too the full thirty thousand? One word: migraine. We had a bad storm at the end of November and I was in misery for three days. I never even manage to put on my glasses, and I’m not one of those ‘I just need them to read,’ sort of glasses wearer. No, without them, the world beyond the few inches in front of my face is a fuzzy, indistinct watercolor. Writing, nor much else, is possible.

Still, can you call my word count a failure? I don’t. I call it an amazing accomplishment that was hard earned. Sometimes winning looks different than you thought it would. Oh, and I’ll see you for NaNoWriMo 2016. I’ll up the stakes and shoot for the full 50K. Follow me if you dare!