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[Darkmere]

FINISHED.

Posting the last part on my blog now. Wrapped up the story nicely, I think, though on the second pass I'll have to remove a few random things from near the beginning that I never got back around to. And make it a little more consistent in general. Still... I just wrote a whole goddam novel in one month. And it even has an ending.

If you'll excuse me, I'm off to cry tears of pride.

You've certainly earned it, congratulations to you!

And everyone else, of course! Good show. We had a much better turnout than last year if I recall, that's for sure.

[Digital Hellhound]

Congratulations to all winners! I should have the time to participate next year - y'all will be here then, right? Riiiiiight?

[Malt_Hitman]

Congratulations Sappho!  It’s great to see you pull through and hit that 50k! 

Congratulations inEQUALITY! If you were still going for 100k then you did double what I managed to eek out in a single month.  

Anyone who wrote anything this year did far more than I did last year and that’s wonderful!   Like people have posted above.  November can be a tight month to get in 50k worth of typing along with all the other months that are terrible but if you don’t even try and start then you’re sure not to finish so starting’s really the hard part.  Now you just need to keep working at it bit by bit! 

The ending to my story is still getting hammered out and I have huge holes to fill in so hopefully I’ll manage to get “done” at some point in December.

[Sirus]

Congrats to the victors! I hope everyone had a wonderful time, even if you didn't get to write as much as you had hoped. And there's nothing stopping you from continuing your current story or competing again next year!
^{2015 will be my year, surely!}

[inEQUALITY]

Congratulations inEQUALITY! If you were still going for 100k then you did double what I managed to eek out in a single month.  

Thanks for the congratulations! And congrats to you too on finishing! Sadly, I had to cut it down to 50k this year thanks to life interrupting (a full week without writing anything more than a page is tough on the overall word count, as it happens). But still, I'm just happy I finished off at the end of the month and never dropped below par for a single day. And for the second year in a row at that, even if I didn't finish early as I did in 2013. Maybe next year I can tackle that 100k challenge properly. We shall see!

[Darkmere]

Ooooookay, so in a bid to NOT procrastinate on finishing my novel like I did last year...

I just sprinted the last 5,000 words, ending with 5 minutes left before midnight. My first draft is complete at 62,000 words. In celebration (and exhaustion), I'm offering anyone who wants one a copy of my first draft, crappy self-done illustrations and all.

It's a noir-esque detective story about a mad science black market in a post-cyberpunk megacity. The summary and an excerpt are Here.
If you would like a copy, please PM me with the email address to send it to and a preferred format if you want something other than .doc.

Thanks for reading, and congratulations to everyone once again! Pat yourselves on the back!

[Sappho]

Congratulations to everyone! Yaaaaayyyyy!

[Caz]

[Sappho]

Oh my god. I... I just got home from work and... And I don't know what to do with myself...

[Fniff]

And to those who didn't make the 50,000... Don't worry, I didn't either.
Yep, the OP actually completely failed NaNoWriMo. I wrote about 8000 words on the official counter before I crashed and burned. I then gave up at around day eleven.
Anyway, I have now written 12,000 words. It's a nice base and I think I can work off it.

Remember, kids. Failed crops make excellent fertilizer for the soil.

[TD1]

Oh my god. I... I just got home from work and... And I don't know what to do with myself...

Make every day NaNoWriMo!

[Darkmere]

In my selfish haste to self-aggrandize, I forgot two important thing for the group at large!
I am ashamed...

1) Re: Winner goodies!
For those of us who stand glorious in triumph (which is all of us, but the purple bar is what it is), the NaNo site will be sending you a list of delicious codes for sponsor offers. Be advised that most of these offers will end on December 31st, so claim them early!

2) Script feedback!
I crave manuscripts like zombies crave brains! If you want another pair of eyes to look over your draft, please PM me and I will give you my email address so you can send me a copy. I will do a read-over of all of them and send back a commentary-laden document menacing with spikes of opinion. Note that this is good for everyone, regardless of word count. Your story should be heard!

[Willfor]

I didn't participate this year, I knew in advance that I would be way too busy, and I was right. (I've written about 4,000 non-NaNo words this month)

Congratulations to everyone who did participate though, even if you didn't win!

[inEQUALITY]

2) Script feedback!
I crave manuscripts like zombies crave brains! If you want another pair of eyes to look over your draft, please PM me and I will give you my email address so you can send me a copy. I will do a read-over of all of them and send back a commentary-laden document menacing with spikes of opinion. Note that this is good for everyone, regardless of word count. Your story should be heard!

I am so, so incredibly tempted just to see thoughts on what I wrote from someone else. What I have is a really rough half of a first draft: the pacing is damn poor; it's almost entirely static and talk-y for the majority of it; many chapters feel similar to others; at times, I leave out too much internal processing while at others I give too much on a tangent; not enough description AT ALL, despite the words-per-chapter numbering anywhere from 4500 - 6000 word, save one shorter one I needed to expand a bit; I dump exposition way too often sometimes; characters seem to change personalities, whether by word or action, between chapters at times when they shouldn't; and at the worst, there were moments where dialogue or even prose were less my writing and more me thinking aloud with moments of fatigue-fueled immaturity/stupidity; some chapters have very terse prose, while others - namely later written ones, after I had started back into reading some C J Cherryh - have very wordy prose. Plus, it's not even finished, being half of what I have planned, and there's even a chapter or two in the middle of the thing left unwritten so far.

But man am I tempted. Outside feedback can be incredibly helpful, especially from someone who doesn't know me personally. I'll be thinking on it...

[Caz]

2) Script feedback!
I crave manuscripts like zombies crave brains! If you want another pair of eyes to look over your draft, please PM me and I will give you my email address so you can send me a copy. I will do a read-over of all of them and send back a commentary-laden document menacing with spikes of opinion. Note that this is good for everyone, regardless of word count. Your story should be heard!

This sounds good, but my first drafts are rather embarrassing messes.