NaNoWriMo

Okay, I know it's been a while, but guess what?

I'm a winner! :B



Yaay.

Final stats!
I reached 50,000 words a day early, but I didn't feel like I would really win unless I brought the story to a satisfactory close.

So, with an hour and fifteen minutes to spare on the east coast, I did.

Final count:
51,637 words. *faints*

You can see my bar graph o' progress here.

And this is my last paragraph. The rest of the manuscript needs a load of work but I like it.

"The streets are empty of the ghostly boys, of women’s blue babies now, as the sun sets and the rain keeps falling as usual. They must be somewhere else, waiting, or the coup could be starting at this very moment. In the hospital boiler room, Skip is stroking his white rat, waiting to see how it turns out, and, a couple hundred feet above him, Clara, Sam and I stand on the threshold of the crosswalk, waiting for the light to change. The traffic stops to our left and to our right. Clara takes Sam’s hand, and he takes mine, and together our feet step off the sidewalk and into a puddle, creating a chord of eerie consonance."

...Whew! So um... yeah. Did anyone else participate this year?