I Quit

Doesn't that sound awful? It feels a little bit awful. For the first time in a couple years, I'm not going to finish NaNo WriMo. You've all known that I've struggled with my novel this year, which honestly took me by surprise. I had an excellent outline. I was excited about the story. I have great characters, a fun plot line. But I finished at 15k. I was able to go back and develop some relationships more and add a few more scenes. I got about seven thousand more words than I imagined a week ago.

But I've come to the end. At this point, I feel like anything I add will be filler. So I'm making the decision, as a writer, to put it aside until I can honestly fill in the holes where I see them.
That's not the biggest reason I'm choosing to leave "High School Revolution" behind for now. I want to do a homemade Christmas for my two little boys. That will involve a lot of time. It's something I care more about than NaNo right now, so it doesn't make sense to me to keep frustrating myself (something I happily do every other year!) with the story when there's other things I want to do.
I'm still going to try and reach a goal of writing 50k new words in November, but working on finishing a couple other drafts I've worked on over the last year.
I know that if I wanted to work at it painstakingly I could finish those last words in some creative way. Plain and simple, I just don't want to. I like HSR too much to ruin it. ;)
 I still wish you all luck! Next year's going to rock.