Lessons I learned from NaNoWriMo this year

I kind of wanted to write something out on NaNoWriMo, because it's been over for six days and it's just now beginning to sink in that it's over. I managed to do 50K again, which means I've won for 3 of the 5 years I've attempted it, and I'm proud of that. It hasn't been easy to do while being in school and working full-time aside. But I'm kind of disappointed too; I've always hoped to have an actual, publishable (by fanfiction standards) fic by the end of NaNoWriMo and once again that hasn't happened. Though unlike the 50K Mass Effect hobgoblin that will Never Be Even Remotely Done, I think I will finish this one. I'm glad that at the very least, I've got sizable Bones of a fic Skeleton; it's the first three and a half parts done, out of probably ten, and now I just have to finish the rest.

As with every year, I feel like I've learned a couple things:

( Nano processing under the cut )