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One of the best things about feeling angry, in fact pretty much the only good thing about it, is the way I can often channel what I'm feeling into a piece of writing. This particular piece didn't take a lot of thought or editing, just me adding words to the file and getting into a rhythm. It's not my "usual" style of writing where there are characters and events and things happen and you can see them, but it's more like poetry in the format of prose. Anyway, I don't feel like I have to justify my work before you've even read it, so just click through :)

This is the final graph of my JulNo progress:

YESSSSSSS I WON. 57,422 words in total... I hit 50,016 at 11.44pm on the 30th (I'd like to see myself win NaNoWriMo with that narrow a margin :P) and then spent my entire day WHEN I SHOULD HAVE BEEN STUDYING, not studying and instead writing.

I got kind of bored of where I was up to, so. I wrote the last two chapters. Well, "bored" is the wrong word. I mean I was sitting on the bus yesterday afternoon and went, "OH CRAP I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO WRITE NEXT??" so I decided to write the last chapter. Then I wrote the last chapter and decided to write the second-last chapter. I'm now filling in the blanks I left while word warring (blanks because I figured they were scenes that could be copied almost verbatim from the old draft, with the pronouns changed... I was wrong by the way). Oh wait, I finished that, and NOW I'm moving onwards. Chapter six!

I'm getting a bit irritated with how long the draft is so far (ALMOST 50,000 - the 57,422 included 2,171 of an irrelevant story, and a bunch of prior drafts to scenes and miscellaneous fictional writings I churned out during July also) for such little narrative. Not a lot HAPPENS in the first five chapters - I mean, things TOTALLY DO, but not as many as are required to justify the thousands of words devoted to them. Soooo I think there's some slimming down to be done in future. No more entire drafts though, I intend to make sure of that :) (I say, for the thousandth time...)

PS: The song I listed in the "music" field = amazing. I love it.