I WON I WON I WON WON WON!!!
Okay, now it's your turn. If you have been doing NaNoWriMo this November, you should be around the 43-45K mark by today. And I'll give you a hint - it is possible to write the entirety of your novel in one day. It may be the worst novel to ever be novel-ed, but it'll be on paper. I wrote about 10K on the first day and about 7K on the day I won (November 24th, this year). I've written 30K in one day before during Camp NaNoWriMo, which, let me tell you, sucked very much, but it was done. So I refuse to let anyone tell me that this is impossible.
No matter where you are at today, you can make it to the end. Whether you've only written 500 words or 5,000 words or 15,000. You have four and a half days left (well, maybe more or less, depending on where you live) to hit that beautiful 50K. Believe me, it's worth it.
And I'll tell you now that you should be careful celebrating. As soon as I hit 50K, I turned on "Shut Up and Dance" by Walk the Moon and started screaming the lyrics, dancing around my room. I jumped on my bed (which was somewhat impossible, since my bed is a pull-out couch) and ended up falling over and bruising my hip somewhat badly, which ruined the excitement. So, if you're a klutz like me, I'll recommend doing something less dangerous than jumping on a non-jumpable bed, like drink hot chocolate until you pass out from writerly exhaustion or watch Criminal Minds all night. Something where you don't risk an injury.
But no matter how close or how far you are, believe me when I say that the exhaustion you put yourself through in the next few days to finish will be worth it to see the bar on NaNoWriMo turn purple and watch the little video on the winning page.
If you've already won, congratulations! Print out your certificate with pride and post your winning banners everywhere you can. You deserve it.
