Woo-hoo!

So . . . I'm sort of wanting to gloat, except not. I don't really feel like I have grounds to thumb my nose at anyone, because I've tried before and failed, and I know some very fine authors who didn't make it this year. And my success really has a lot to do with my husband (who stalled out at 22K words), whose idea it was to do NaNoWriMo this year anyway, and who listened to all my plot ideas (in between telling me his own) and told me it was okay to write fanfic, and told me to put the part about the toilets back in (I didn't), and generally got my competitive creative juices flowing. So I really feel like I should be saluting all the other NaNoWriMo authors out there, and saying keep writing at your own damn pace and never mind the deadline.

But I'm still happy I made it. And just a teensy bit smug. Just a little.