nanonanonano!

[thanate]

I have come to an end, updated my wordcount on the site, and backed up my novel with fifteen minutes to spare. Which is, in fact, a first... there's some stuff that needs to be re-worked, of course, but I haven't actually gotten to the actual end of anything within NaNo before. The final total is 58,253 words, which is pretty good for something that in its first incarnation was looking like it might top out at 30k.

Although... I am horribly tempted to add an epilogue of some kind of reconciliation scene between the witch and the King. It would probably be mildly horrible, but could answer the rest of the questions left unresolved. I think... unless I've lost track of what *was* left unresolved. Oh well. Now I can get on with the etsy thing, and grauwulf will probably start pestering me to read it. Does anybody who's into children's/YA fairytales want to do a test-read in a couple months, after I've gotten around to cleaning up the chronology a little bit?

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[zagzagael.livejournal.com]

*applauds wildly*

Well done! Congrats! Props! Kudos! Points!!!!

I would love to read your work if and when you decide it needs that!

[thanate.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :)

[laeticiav.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!!! Wow, I am super impressed. I would *love* to read it, but I cannot 100% promise I will have time -- ask me when you're ready to go.

OK, about epilogues -- main character is *not* at the train station with the totally boring love of main character's life saying farewell to ridiculous children, right? (Of course, it doesn't help that my tastes in HP fandom leant toward having the main character married off to the snarky potions master instead, but oh well). Yeah, a little anti-epilog these days.

[thanate.livejournal.com]

Heh, um, did I mention that I stopped reading HP after the 4th one? Because I'm seriously burnt out on The Great Battle Between Good and Evil, and I wasn't that interested in reading her increasingly unsatisfying take on it, or getting involved in discussions with people who appear to be convinced that it's Great Literature. :/

No, this epilogue would not involve trains in any way, but it would involve changing point of view, since there's no way my first person narrator would either witness or be told about it.

[thanate.livejournal.com]

Oh, hey-- you might know this: So you've got two people, one of whom has no idea how to ride and is wearing a nice long skirt, and a horse with one of those crazy medieval booster-seat saddles on it, and you're going to have to push the horses a bit all day. Where do you put the girl so she doesn't fall off? Behind the saddle, or in front of it?

[textilejnkie.livejournal.com]

I will.

[sylvie.livejournal.com]

I'm interested in reading/reviewing, though I've got no clue what my schedule will be like in a few months.