Winning NaNoWriMo is One of the Best Things Ever
After chatting with Travis and Penny, I truely believe that this is one of my best ever achievements.
A lot of people in this world have a list. A list of the 100 things they must do before they die. And in a lot of cases, that list has things like:
- run a marathon
- do a parachute jump
- climb a mountain
- write a novel
Out of that list above, I've done two of them - the first and last. Granted, I walked the final quarter of the Auckland marathon (the wind was against me, see!) but I still did it.
And you know what, doing NaNoWriMo and fulfilling the fourth item on that list is about 50,000 times better than running a marathon. At least in my eyes!
So well done to the various people I know around Welly who have also finished it; it's been a great journey, an adventure, funny, hard, crazy, silly, tiring, awesome, completely bizarre and utterly enjoyable - I can't wait 'til next year.
Here are Travis's and Penny's entries about finishing.
So thanks to Travis for pushing me and Penny for pulling me along these last 50,000 words! Phew. I need some sleep.
P.S. I don't have a list of 100 things to do before I die, but if I did, NaNoWriMo would be one of them.
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