What can I say. I did what I came to do today. It took me a bit longer than I’d hoped (I’d planned to be done around 22:00, but finished 23:10) but that was largely down to a couple of hours of “I don’t want this to end” block this afternoon.

Once I was over that it wasn’t exactly plain sailing – some of the writing was decidedly scrappy – but I did manage to make it relatively smoothly. And yes, the last two words of the 166,661 in total were “The End”.

As it is I’m tired, but elated, and – well if I could describe it, I would. It’s been a hell of a month (even with some 40 minutes still left to go I feel comfortably saying that), and I’m not sure I want to know just how much I’ve typed. I’ll safe a definite guestimate on that for tomorrow, or maybe the day after, when I hope to do a retrospective on another NaNoWriMo.

A few little things now:

• Every end-of-day wordcount this month was a palindrome
• My final “daily average” wordcount – 5,555 – is also a palidrome
• My surplus percetage 233.32% too much, is also a palindrome
• Finishing 50k on day 8 is my second fasted 50k ever
• Doing 16,462 words on day 8 is my biggest writing day ever
• Getting 100k on day 18 is my fastest 100k ever
• And 166,661 one is my best final score for NaNoWriMo by over 40k

And finally: I’m very, very, very glad I took tomorrow off to recover from this month, and the 22k I put in this final weekend. I think I need a bit of a rest now. And some time to catch up with a lot of things, even if I am currently too tired to remember what they might be.