"The End."

That's right, with less than eight hours to spare, I finished my novel.

Novel Stats
Title: Keys In The Lock
Final Word Count: 158,173 words.
Chapters: Thirty One, including an Epilogue and Prologue.
Climax: Chapter Twenty Five - Dueling For a Haunted Lady
Deaths: Five total, including one main character.

Oh God, that was an epic writing adventure. I'm so thrilled that I was able to finish it. Now I can rest for an entire month, hahaha. Hope anyone else who participated in NaNoWriMo was able to get across the finish line or at least get something down that they're proud of, even if they didn't hit 50k.

Congrats to you all, see you all next year.

I'm gonna go rest my hands before they fall off.

In my annual writing frenzy, I am again doing National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). This year I'm taking a dive into Mainstream Fiction, which seems to be proving more of a challenge than previous years where I wrote mostly Sci-Fi/Fantasy hybrid novels. I'm taking a much more active approach to NaNo this year than in the past, as I am the Municipal Liaison (essentially the person "in charge" for a specific area) to the Springfield, Missouri region. So you all will see one of two things happen during November:

1) I will disappear almost completely during the month as I will be focused on novelling.
or 2) I will be posting regular updates about NaNo and (most likely) only NaNo during the month.

Either way, if you are also participating in NaNoWriMo, feel free to add me to your Writing Buddies. My profile is here: http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/95107

Good luck to everyone participating! To everyone who isn't, good luck dealing with all of us!

I had the novel title come to me while I was poking around the Fiction & Literature section at B&N tonight, so I poked around in Photoshop for a while and made a cover.