End of NaNoWriMo (and November)

Holy cheese and crackers, this month has really flown. And here we are, at the very last month of 2017. Already? Seems like only yesterday (almost literally) that we were ushering in the new year.

Well, guess the only thing to do is make this final month a good one, to end this year on a positive note.

So! **rubs hands together gleefully** I have officially completed NaNoWriMo at a solid 60,000 words. (Needless to say, my work on the novel has but begun.)

It was far from easy, I can tell ya. But it sure was a boatload of fun. I'm definitely doing this again next year. What kind of story I'll tackle next, only time will tell.

I was right about having a lot to write about for this year's story, and I drew a slew of illustrations. You'd be surprised (I sure am) that I not only kept drawing after finishing the "Inktober" challenge (twice), but I ended up creating even more pictures than all of my Inktober pictures put together.

Granted, they're all pretty basic pencil sketches, and drawing them by hand is the easy part. Even so, I'm feeling like a total boss right now: two Inktober challenges, a NaNoWriMo challenge (with extra words to spare), and 100+ NaNoWriMo illustrations. I sure put my creative tanks into maximum overdrive.

So, I'll just go ahead and display my stuff, in no particular order. Just general ideas, straight from my brain to the paper, with no idea set in stone, though I am seeing quite a few "keepers." I hardly even know which one I ought to color first. I'm also well aware of the inaccuracies in some of these sketches, but with luck, there is nothing that can't be fixed in Photoshop.

My art almost always turns out loads better in Photoshop; it's just loads easier to draw it by hand first.