I win!

I've done it, I actually did it. I won NaNoWriMo! I got to 50k words. Of course I'm still only half - 2/3 of the way through the story but NaNo's given me a good start and gotten me back into the habit of writing every day. Finally, before my battery dies here's a quick excerpt from Hope's Folly (not to be confused with this ). Remember first draft so fairly awful. “Well that could have gone worse.” Dannage said flopping into one of the chairs around the table, scrubbing his face with the balls of his hands. “We can’t them lock Hale up.” Arland said, her temper still high, something about the admiral rubbed her up the wrong way, he could understand, Arthur had always been that sort. “We’ll find a way,” he replied, keeping his eyes closed. “We always find a way.” She didn’t buy it, how could he expect her to, he wasn’t sure he bought it himself. He opened his eyes to find her staring down at him. A fire in her eyes he thought she’d lost. “Sir, w