So my next thought on the Blogging A to Z Challenge for 2026 was, if I failed at that challenge but succeeded at my National Novel Writing Month challenge to write 50,000 more words on THE LEGACY OF THE EXTRA CREDIT PROJECT, what would happen?
Why, I’d notch one more victory on the above diagram. Specifically, that dark line going down and to the right would tilt up until it intersected the convergence of lines above – which would put me at something like 290,000 words on LEGACY OF THE EXTRA CREDIT PROJECT.
Nanowrimo, for those just joining this blog, is a challenge to write 50,000 words of a new novel in the month of November. It expanded into “Camp Nano” challenges in April and July, and I personally, since I write long novels, use it to add words to manuscripts in process.
About ten years ago, I started doing the Camp April and July Nano’s, since I wanted to finish my books before I die, and last December, I started doing the challenge full time until the end of the LEGACY OF THE EXTRA CREDIT PROJECT … which is turning into a damn trilogy.
So far, approximately 10% of the words I’ve ever written in Nano were on this one project. I have a lot of work to do – I’m just finishing Novella 5 out of a project 10-12 novellas, and boy does it need editing – but I’m very proud of some of the work that I’ve done here.
So if you don’t see me blogging, that’s because I’m writing, drawing or coding.
Mostly writing.
-the Centaur
Pictured: My “the reason you’re doing this” shelf – a collection of genre toys and personal keepsakes I use to remind me of why I work. Also pictured: my Nano yearly stats for the past quarter century or so, and the plaque I got from the now-defunct Nano organization when I cracked 2 million words.
