So it's official.

Our word-counting robots have analyzed your November novel, and they've delivered their final, binding assessment: Winner.




I DID IT I DID IT I DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Against ALL fucking odds (and oh god were there plenty) I DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And I'm STILL in love with my story I'm in the middle of an AMAZINGLY climactic ending and it's wonderful and I'm stopping here only because

I NEED TO CELEBRATE.

I FINALLY DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Four years of trying and:

I have written a novel.

*flies all around the universe*


This was, without a doubt, one of the hardest years on record for NaNoWriMo participants. At some point in the literary marathon, most of your fellow writers fell by the wayside. They lost their books to work, to family, to school, and to the hundreds of other distractions and interruptions that tend to shutter creative undertakings like NaNoWriMo.

But not you. Not this year.

This November, you set out with the ridiculously ambitious goal of bringing an entire world into existence in just 30 days. When the going got tough, you got writing. Now you're one of the few souls who can look back on 2007 as the year you were brave enough to enter the world's largest writing contest, and disciplined enough to emerge a winner.

I am so warm and fuzzy. I am posting happy icons everywhere and I am SO going to print out my ridiculous winner's certificate and stick it to the wall over my desk.

I knew I should save my NaNo07 shirt for tomorrow, to wear in VICTORY. \0/