A great end to a great month!

We won!

Merlin
10,156 words in 30 days
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Devin
80,743 words in 30 days
****

Wendy
103,557 words in 30 days
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We got up early and wrote, we raced home from Chinese class and wrote, and we wrote instead of watching movies. Merlin let Devin write when her word count was behind and Devin let me use the computer when mine was. I went easy on all the other homework and we can now say we've written novels.

Tia asked if they'd be available any time soon and honestly, you wouldn't want to read them at this point. They're incredibly rough and probably too wordy (we were aiming for quantity here) and though Merlin won two times over (she finished her word count goal AND finished her story), Devin and I didn't actually finish the stories. We're going to work on that part-time this month and hope to finish filling in the general plots and then we'll do some major editing. Besides, I still need a title. Neither of us knows if we'll do anything with them (Merlin's already recognized that her story too closely resembles fan fiction to be able to do anything with it besides cherish it as her first NaNoWriMo Novel. Her novel's style is based on a book she really likes, though the characters are all her own).

Now, we can't imagine November without all the fun and despair. Dan was lucky he missed half the month (his trip to North America), that way he only had to put up with the insanity for two and a half weeks.

All in all, it was a success.