AND IT'S GOOD!

Yup, I made it! The badge is significantly uglier than the one I got in '05, but still.

Of course, the crucial question is "Now what?" I got through probably half or less of the plan I have to finish the story, and in '05, I broke down quickly after NaNo was over, so this time I must try to do better. If you all want me to continue blogging drafts, let me know, although I might (or might not) do it anyway. When I started back to work on the FY Mirrorverse here, my plan was actually to draft it all the way to the end before polishing it up for FF.net and such (I also got on the waiting list for Ao3), and I haven't quite decided if I'll hold to that or not.

But anyway, one last time...

50075 ★ 50000 (100.15%)

(Actually the NaNo site gives my count as 50,031, but here I used the RoughDraft word count for the sake of consistency.)

( And one last Daily Cut leaves off with Mitsukake in mid-angst... )

Random thoughts tied together by Avatar: The Last Airbender.

When this came up on Salon (Glenn Greenwald is part of my remaining maintenance dose of politics), I couldn't resist leaving a comment relating it to the Racebending controversy. I understand that casting can't be totally colorblind, but if it's always color that pays for being visible...


The other totally unrelated point is that I've long thought of myself as someone who writes fanfic but can't read it, and the big problem was that when I involve myself in something in that certain way and write fanfic about it, I get wrapped up in my own version to the extent that I get downright territorial. But just the other day I had kind of a "duh" realization, that there's plenty of stuff I like that I don't get involved with in that way, and thus I may not have that kind of trouble reading fanfic about those things. For example, I'm sure that reading Fushigi Yuugi fanfic would be hard for me (of course, FY stuff other than my own is so "hot" for me that I got through my FY-fanfic NaNo without ever even listening to the soundtrack), Rurouni Kenshin would be hard, Harry Potter maybe not as much but still there. But (the tenuous connection), if I were to read, say, A:TLA fanfic, what would be the problem? I might have to try it.