I didn't make my Nano goal this year. I got to a little over 33k in words and life just had too much on my plate to get much more. I'm very happy with the story I started though.
I'm ecstatic about the success of my students. Yesterday we did a lot of writing in class. I had some oatmeal cookies and we wrote until our fingers hurt. Half of my students met their word count goal. All reached over 2500 words and two got over 7,000!!! Now its time to dish out prizes and begin the editing.
All of the kids today didn't feel relieved NaNo was over. They all felt a little let down. They actually have more to write, more stories to tell. Once you unleash the creativity by putting the inner editor in its rightful place, imagination flows so much more readily. It is time though to bring out Inner Editors out and let them play. I unleashed the codes for StudentPublishing.com and now they are excited to edit.
Tomorrow, its all about the red pen. :-)
