That is the total word count of my NaNoWriMo attempt. It wasn’t a failure, considering the goal of the event is fifty thousand, it was an bloody spectacular failure.
Not that I can’t salvage any sort of learning from it. It’s one of these times when you really stop to think and get introspective and think some more. But to start of, on NaNo itself, as per my promise.
I see the event as a rather nice initiative. It works as a team effort of mutual support and slight competitive edge, you know, just to motivate entrants to try their hardest to “win”. In so far as winning is possible in a NaNo.
The milestones of 1667 words per day, pep talk spam, and overall community feel of people encouraging each other to do their best, it’s a great initiative. Not that the goal is to make a best seller in 30 days, that’s not the goal at all, a NaNo draft is just that: a draft. It’s supposed to be unpolished, a spam of words and scenes and events that hopefully form a story worth telling, once properly edited and revised. And it works, for the most part.
As for my personal experience? I’m debating with myself whether to share it or not. There are certain lines between personal and private that I’m not sure where to draw, as much as I’d like to get some thoughts out of my head, doing so in a completely public form makes me somewhat hesitant.
You’ll possibly hear from me soon, either on the particulars of my failed NaNo or on something else entirely that I’m using to distract myself at the time. No promises as to which one I’ll choose.
Bottom line on NaNo is that I feel it’s an experience worth trying. Regardless of results.
An odd place to sleep 
Please show us! I for one would love to see what you’ve written, even if it’s not a lot. But, or course, it’s up to you.
I’m considering that as well. I have mostly only written the introduction to the story and not even got to the happenings and events, but I might continue it, or share what I have so far.