I hit 19 000 words! I think that's the most I've ever written for one piece. My reward for hitting 19k was to post a journal about all the awesome things I keep doing instead of NaNoWriMo.

Primarily, my exams are over - and I'm convinced I passed Calculus. It's even vaguely possible that I might get a distinction, which I wouldn't have believed a couple of weeks ago.

Most excitingly, I'm hosting a workshop at #Writers-Workshop. You can even see the group button up there making my stats look all funny. Part of me doesn't believe that I'm doing something so prominent and even potentially useful. Another part of me is calmly working out ways to subtly or unsubtly point out that one should proofread one's workshop submissions. Luckily for the world at large, the latter part is doing most of the important stuff.

Before I hit 19k, I hit 18k at which point . . .

. . . I actually organised my favourites! There are now folders with arty names and nice-sounding descriptions. I even put things in them. (I may have forgotten to leave anything in the main gallery, but we'll ignore that for now. 23k seems like a good time to do that.) Look:

(from Waves)
(from This is what it is)
(from Listen to the Story)
(from Watch the Cogs Turn)
(from Ain't that Clever)