I really did want to keep you up to date with little word count updates here and there during NaNoWriMo, as I ploughed and sometimes did not move very at all through National Novel Writing Month. But I decided that the time necessary to post a dozen words in a blog would have been better spent typing another dozen words into my Word doc.

The bottom line is, I made it. And I’m thrilled to bits. I clocked up 50,162 words and actually have the makings of a pretty good story – although, as first drafts go, it’s got more than a few gaps and holes and room to improve in it.

Now if you’ll have to excuse me, my PlayStation 3 has been feeling a little neglected, left on its own in the living room while I tapped away at the kitchen table, so I’m going to get to know it again.