I hit 150,000 words in Ghost Town Realty today! It is now officially the longest single story I’ve ever written, beating out my shitty fan fic that I’ve been adding to on and off for the past like ten years.

Anyway, 150,000 is the word count at which I told myself I would stop writing (or pause writing, rather) and instead work on an actual outline. I want to get all the pieces in the right place before I start writing again (which will probably involve filling in all the gaps to get a “complete” first draft before I actually edit).

Unlike every other time I’ve done NaNo, though, I tried to keep the chunks of writing in a vague order, so hopefully outlining and re-ordering won’t be too painful. Let’s hope!

Edit from August: OH GOD I HATE IT