By far the most difficult NaNo. I thought I’d run out of story at 40k words; but I didn’t expect to have so much trouble getting any tangential inspirations for the last 10,000 words.
I also didn’t expect to be ill for most of it.
But even after the doxycycline kicked in, I would never have finished it without the encouraging emails from my friend Barbara; and several phone calls with my mom, who let me ramble through story points.
Thanks to them I finished, even though I averaged 500 words an hour for 6 of the last 10,000 words.