NaNoWriMo -- The Final Update (See You At Camp)

By the time I post this, I will have finished NaNoWriMo's required 50,000 word for the month of November. Then I'm going to go through the entire mess with a red pen and slash at least a third of it.

I don't have as tight a draft as I did for Camp back in July, but I have something less than the mess that is usually a NaNo novel. Mostly, my story is boring. And one character became magically more complex about 20,000 words in, so I'm going to spend a little time fleshing out his story.

But it's ugly, even for a first draft. I know this is part of the game -- write a really "shitty first draft," and to my credit, the last two have at least been editable. But gah, sometimes I think the only thing I get from NaNo is an improvement in my typing skills.