27.5 K, that’s where I gave up. I didn’t push ’til the last minute, and I didn’t reallylock up. I just took along look at some of the last words I wrote and realized I would not make it in the time I had and even want to read what I had written. In the interest of getting done, I was writing myselfinto a hole, one like the one that I wrote my first novel into and which I still haven’t gotten it out of.

This was supposed to be a throwaway plotline, but it grew on me. What I end up with is the beginning of what can be a really good book, in my opinion. One that I want to finish but not in a week like I tried to do. I wish my month could have started around the 17th last week, oh, I guess it could have, just not in the Nano world. Dang, I really wanted to be able to post one of those winner widgets here.

So, the Nano experience is over for a year, and I think that despite not being a winner, I came away from it with something worth the time. I’ll try again next year and here on out try to begin putting upposts about writing. One thing Nano did, fully,is make me a writer again. It’s good to be back.