There it is. 26,221 words, most of them crap, in 30 days.
What surprised me most was how easy it was to crank out three or four hundred words on my iPad while crammed into a bus seat. I discovered that the best seat for writing on my regular B.C. Transit 410 bus was in the back corner on the driver's side. I get lots of elbow room, I can prop my feet on the little rail on the metal support under the seat in front of me, and I'm not sitting right under the helpful but really loud speaker that broadcasts upcoming stop announcements from the little lady trapped somewhere inside the bus.
My kit worked pretty well, WriteRoom on the iPad, Metapad on the desktop and Dropbox to sync it all up.
I figure I got about 25% of the way through the story, which is about right, if a typical 350 page novel runs to about 90,000 words. As someone on the NaNoWriMo forums pointed out, 25,000 words works out to about 80 or 90 pages.
So now I'll take a couple of days to think about how I'm gonna get Moe to meet Jinny, so they can start planning their attack on Jannes. I also have to get Kokabiel, the malevolent AI, into the story sooner and with greater impact on the main characters.
Even though NaNoWriMo 2011 is a wrap, there's still much more to do!
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