I did it this year, not just 50k but finished the book -- and the ending came out right. I choked on it a little, was not really sure how it would end... and then it came out right in the end. It did work. By the very end it was perfect. The wizard of the age is a horse, and thanks to him the whole magical world continues to roll on undestroyed and undespoiled, unicorns still roam the land in their Herd and so do elvensteeds and sarcastic sidekicks and young bards with magic whistles and the whole lot.

I'm happy with the book, happier than I ever expected to be. Now maybe I can finally sleep! lol

The song listed on this entry was the love theme for Snowflake and his elvensteed lady Clearwater.

I've been verifying at chapter end, and the farther I get past the midpoint, the easier it is to pick it up again, immerse and watch it flow. I'm having fun with this book now! It was so hard to get into for the first half, tons of procrastination, clipping my toenails was more exciting than making myself work on it... but now it's jazzed up and I've got enough plot to know where it's going, and will get it finished within November. It may not be 80,000 words... or it might, I'd need two or three two-chapter days for it to reach that scale. But they're not impossible now that it's fun to work on the way they're supposed to be!

Arkenstone was good music for this novel, worked a lot better.

We had a small family-only but wonderful huge Thanksgiving today. Earlier. Well yesterday since I stayed up writing past midnight. Huge quantities of turkey, it was bigger than Ari, and he did have some too, so did Zoe. Marshmallow-topped yams with blackstrap molasses in the sauce. The turkey was the best I've ever had, Kitten did something to it with garlic and the spicing and it had a perfect flavor, it was juicy and seasoned and just -- better than ever. I didn't know turkey could be that good and I love the stuff. Cranberry sauce and soft browned dinner rolls and to top it off, when I was bursting, she made Key Lime pie.

I used to hate Key Lime pie, because of some bad key lime pie I had in childhood I thought it was so sour it was like nuclear sourballs or something, not a proper pie at all. But hers is just sweet and tangy and great, with meringue and graham cracker crust, she converted me to belief in key lime pie -- and she made it from real, tiny Key limes that they bought day before yesterday. Absolutely great Thanksgiving dinner in the afternoon.

Followed by the best nap I've had all year, naturally, and then when I got up about 10pm I started getting into my novel because the sun was down and wham, it was flowing like they're supposed to. I'm happy now. This is how Nanowrimo's supposed to feel.

And at last... a weird solution to the Autocomplete problem. If I send the entry and don't put the tags in till I get the screen after posting it where it says "edit the entry's tags" then it doesn't autocomplete them. I can just type them in and it's all cool. Not optimum, I'd rather just do it all at the same time, but much better than what I've been struggling with!

Still plugging along on Chapter Three, which started flowing a while ago albeit sluggishly. It felt sluggish, but it's moving and that's the important thing.

Aw heck I can do short-short progress posts. Onward!