Monday, December 1, 2025

November writing challenge over

 So.

Yup.

It's December 1st, and my not-NaNoWriMo is over for another year.

It felt like a big old mess, if I'm being honest.  (Well, that's perhaps the most suitable-to-be-said-in-public version of an honest summation, anyway.)

As much as I want to blame having a tooth break off, leading to many hours lost to pain and dental work, that didn't realistically cause most of the problems.

The main thing was just that my main project petered out into insanity that was not really feasible to continue working on...or, not that exactly, more that it meandered off into a direction that does not appeal to me so that even though I had a solid outline of the next chunk of the story, I just didn't feel any appeal in continuing to work on it.  ðŸ˜­  Not sure how that will play out in the long run.  Maybe a short while off from writing will recharge me to keep plowing ahead on it?

Anyway.

Final numbers!

Words written in November previously:  86,535 (or 91,430)
Thursday's word count:  1,851
Friday's word count:  1,450
Saturday's word count:  856 (or 2,402)
Sunday's word count:  104
Total word count in November:  90,796 (or 97,237)
Projects, with starting and final word counts:

Untitled MDZS fanfic w/time-travel elements
Starting word count:  21,100
Word count as of previous post:  98,194
Thursday's word count:  98,534
Friday's word count:  98,604
Saturday's word count:  99,460
Sunday's word count:  99,564
Words added to the planning document:  4,796

The Tablet of Destinies, Atalanta and Ariadne book 4
Ended up untouched.  ðŸ˜­

Untitled sci-fi VN

Total word count previously: 8,649
Thursday's word count:  9,555
Friday's word count:  10,935

Opening section of a future MDZS fanfic (NHS-centric, canon compliant) that I'm nowhere near ready to write:
Thursday word count:  605

Words added to the planning document for a My Time in Sandrock fanfic that who knows when I'll actually write it:
Saturday word count:  1,546
(In my own defense here, I just finished replaying My Time in Portia, the first game in the series, so the sequel (which is the better game) has been on my mind a lot lately.)