NaNo postmortem

...if that's even the right word. Idk. 

NaNoWriMo is over and I'm feeling... weird. Weird, okay? Like, I wrote 18,658 words on the last day - that is a lot of goddamn words. (Most of them were "said", "um", and "uh" but you know what? Those are words.)  

But 4tw waits for no man, and if I wanna get the next tier of wings I gotta keep my streak up. Which means I need to keep writing. And, I mean, that should be easy, right? No longer am I restricted to It's Raining Somewhere Else (not that I, uh, really was during NaNo, either - but I did manage 50k on that! ...and 22k on other things) - I can write anything in the world! Whatever I want.

So why don't I want to write at all? 

Honestly, it's probably that last day that did me in. I purposely have my timezone set an hour ahead, so that when if when I inevitably end up writing super late at night, I can get in my words for that day and also the next day - like, I started it because of the new site timezone issue, but I kept it that way because I ended up really liking it? Like, I thought I would hate it - I need that extra hour! I thought, but nope, turns out I don't - but it turns out I actually really, really like being able to knock out two days' worth of quota at once, if I feel like it. (I mean, I could always do that anyway, but I'm a lot more likely to be awake and writing at 11pm than I am at 12am - or at least I shouldn't be awake and writing at 12pm, though it, uh. It happens.) 

Part of it, too, is where I am in the plot - if I want to advance, I have to fight bigger monsters than I maybe... want to, right now. I can't just knock out a 600 word monster and call it a day. Well, I could, but. Those next wings are in 3PC, so I'm gonna have to get there eventually. (Fortunately they're also almost a month away, so I don't have to advance the plot quite yet. But soon.)

I haven't actually, like, won a NaNo in like three years, so maybe this kind of writing exhaustion is normal and I just forgot about it. Like I said... I don't know. It's weird, is all.

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 ...and then I managed to hammer out enough for one whole assassin (of three) just catching up on Sophia's Magical Wayhaven Adventures. I'm not sure the author would be entirely pleased with me fucking around with her universe the way that I am, to make Sophia fit into it (and of course the gratuitous Yuri on Ice crossover, although that was part of Sophia's shit long before she ended up in Wayhaven) but I'm pretty happy with what's coming out, so. 

Of course, I forgot to turn autobattle off, so I ended up hastily doing that and then having to run from the second assassin I'd inadvertently started fighting, but. Nobody's perfect, right?

Goddamn am I tired, though. I'm going to have to figure out a decent breakfast for tomorrow, because I'm probably going to need it. no, self, fudge does not count. Or maybe a couple of peanut butter sandwiches or something, idk. I haven't eaten much the last two days and that's probably not ideal.

I haven't gotten out much in the last two days, either, but in my defense I spent the entire weekend stuck at my dad's, so it's not like I had much of a choice, there. I could have done something today, but then I got distracted by tumblr turning itself into even more of a dumpster fire than usual. Maybe I'll go around tomorrow and catch pokeymans and hack portals and whatnot. Unless it rains. I think it might be supposed to rain.