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Writing small clues and foreshadowing is weird cause I always have this urge to make it explicit like “EeeHH? Did you see what I did there?” cause honestly I don’t trust anyone to care enough to pick up on my clues but they’re so good it’d be such a waste to miss them.

We did it, Reddit!

I finished NaNoWriMo and well, this was certainly one of the most interesting years I’ve done. Not counting the first two because I really had no fucking idea what I was doing, this is the least amount of words I wrote in a year, according to the NaNoWriMo official counter: 111,195.

I started out with a story I had outlined and thought through several times for months by the start of November. It was a more personal story which I haven’t done before but I was confident. Ten days and almost 22k words later I was done. I didn’t like any of what I wrote, I didn’t feel the drive to go on and I knew that if I were to keep pushing I would ruin the story for myself.

That’s one of my bad habits, that if I feel like a story is ruined I can never get back to it. So I abandoned Lucid with a heavy heart and switched to plan B which wasn’t even a plan up until then.

I picked up another story, one I started last December after my semi-successful NaNoWriMo 2016, and have been writing for the better parts of 2017. I called it my comfort project, something I would only write if I felt like it, something I would put no deadlines on, and wouldn’t force until I grow to hate it, like I’ve done so many times before.

I didn’t like breaking these not-so-strict rules of NaNo, that you’re supposed to start a new story and whatever but I had been missing Vale already and I felt like jumping back into it. That’s when this year’s NaNo became fun for me.

I started with patching up the holes I’d previously left, then continued from where I left off, with only a few chapters to go until the end. And I never wavered. And I finished the story. And I was satisfied with it.

For a few hot moments I was thinking whether I should try to get on top of NaNo Faces which I’ve done for two years now, or reach 150k or 200k, but then I remembered it would just make me rush the story (cause after I finished I started editing, lol) and that would betray everything I’ve worked on. So I didn’t do that. And that’s partially me destroying my OCD which is also a victory in itself.

I set out to do something I haven’t done before and even though I failed I ended up achieving even more things I haven’t done before. Vale is a one of a kind story in my life and I’m proud of what I did with it. I’m sure editing it will be a bit of a struggle and I’ll flip my opinion on it upside down but just the fact that I managed to stick with it for a YEAR which I’ve never done before makes me really happy.

Every year NaNoWriMo, including the first two, shows me something about myself I didn’t know before. I may not have written 27k words in a day like last year, I may not have had a smooth journey from start to finish like in 2014, or pulled a pretty creepy story literally out of my bumhole and finished it in two weeks like in 2015, but I am proud.

Let’s do it again next year ^^

if vale found out im fighting my ocd and giving up being first on nano faces and im not forcing writing more because i actually care too much about the story to ruin it by competing with people that dont even know im competing with them shed think it was dope and thats all that matters,

Vale: *thinks she’s a piece of shit and covers it up by always talking about how awesome she is*
Cephas: *thinks he’s a piece of shit and covers it up by always talking about how awesome his friends are*

I finished Vale, whoooooooooooooooooooooo
Weird fucking feeling. First story I didn’t finish within a month but actually worked on for a year. I mean it’s now time to edit it but you know… I still finished the first draft. I started it outside NaNoWriMo, I wrote it in my own time, through Camp NaNo too, then I kinda abandoned it then I chose another story for this NaNo that didn’t work out so I returned to it and it worked and now we have it, Vale officially joined the series of now three stories I actually finished.

Ok that’s not true. Leaper, The Rains Come, In Static, Vale. Four. Ok July 14th but it’s a bit of a mess even though I love it. Five. WHOOPPPPPP

First of all I want everyone to know that even though Vale’s time-slow-y powers sound like they’re the same as Daud’s blink in the Dishonored DLC’s it’s actually much closer to the game mechanics in Superhot so jot that down.