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Tomorrow is December. I did not in way, shape or form finish NaNo. Granted, I fully gave up less than a week in, but I held out some infinitesimal hope that maybe I'd get back to it. Maybe I'd get re-inspired about that story and have a grand ol' time writing a draft.

Nope.

Instead I finished the major rewrite of ZA (I suppose it should be MA, now that it has a real title, but whatever), which I'd been working on since, oh - March - but which didn't really see any major progress until I put my nose to the stone in October and just shoved it to the top of my priority list. And worked on it. And worked on it. And worked on it. And felt like I was never going to be done with it.

But now!

Ending Stats: 204 pages, 124,764 words

Obviously I need to cut that down a bit. And even fresh off the "finished!" wagon, I'm already building a mental list of the things that need to be tweaked, shifted and re-edited for the final draft. Yes, this is not the final draft. It usually goes: draft zero, re-write (i.e. draft 1), final draft. Draft zero = short but intense, NaNo-style writing where the whole point is to find the plot and establish the characters. Re-write = turning that into something what makes sense. Final draft = tying it all up tight and fixing as much language (mostly circuitous) and grammar as possible.

Now MA gets to sit and ferment for some time - probably just December, possibly a little longer - while I completely switch gears to something else. I just haven't figured out what yet.