Long weeks of trudging and pulling my hair out I've finally reached the Needed word count to qualify for a completion of the NaNoWriMo challenge. To say it is a relief is putting it mildly and I am proud (so vain eh?) to have accomplished this. Yet the work is not over, what was planned as a 31 chapter novel is now only at Chapter 9 and that already only encompass the first few moments of the storyline, if I actually worked at it, the novel could blossom into a trilogy unto itself, (NaNo challenge 2006, 2007 maybe?). I am quite satisfied with the result but a lot of rework and editing has to be done before it can actually be said to be complete, it may never get published but I'm still proud of it. Maybe I'll send the draft to a friend like I promised for his approval and opinion and also in helping edit the draft. Well relaxing a bit for now and taking my time to finalize the novel, much needed break for me. Good luck to all other challengers, the competition is still running and there's still quite a lot of time.