#9 It's over! Praise be to the deity of your choice!

NaNoWriMo is over. I managed 50,666 words so I've just printed out my shiny winners certificate. It gets to replace the 2006 one on the fridge.

I wasn't expecting this year to be that difficult. I don't remember finding last year difficult. I knew what I wanted to write, it was mostly just a matter of finding the time. There were occasional moments when I knew I needed something to happen before something else happened, so I had to make something up quick. There were moments of surprise when something happened that I didn't expect, or something I had put in earlier on a whim turned out to be useful.

This year was really hard work. I know people say the second year is harder, but I didn't believe them until now. It was hard work from start to finish. Most days I didn't know what I was going to write. There are occasional things that I like. I think the original idea is still in there, struggling to get out. I still like the idea. Time to leave it for a month or so now and see what I think of the execution of it then.

Should anyone want to read through it (and I realise I'm not exactly selling it) they would be most welcome. Deedee is already reading. She's brilliant because shockingly she actually likes reading my writing but will tell me if I'm just being plain stupid.

Anyway, another thing that I found different from last year was that after last year's NaNo, all I wanted to do was sit around and play computer games and read books. I had no desire whatsoever to do any more writing for months. This year I do. Maybe it's just because I didn't find it so hard to find the time. Maybe it's because while the plot for the NaNo story was struggling, I had the best ideas for things in the EpicWIP. ...Ok, some of them are cracktastic. Some of them are actually good and I will seriously use. Funny though they are, we are not having a repeat of the Pink Bunnies of Doom.

Now we come to the point of the blogpost. I want to do some writing but I don't have the most up to date version of the document I'm working on. Thus the universe thwarts me again.