Nano's over

So as I write this, it's not exactly over. But I'm anticipating it being over soon. Dec. 1st isnt't hat far away. I'm not even done with the novel for this year. I'm not even halfway done. But I'm not going to finish it. I realize this. It's kind of depressing because it means I wrote for all of November for nothing. I have 186k in words that go nowhere. And even if I write all of December, it's probably not going to do any good. I don't have something I and entery my counts into, something I can chart my progress on. I'm not going to be able to see how i'm doing or how I've done. That part is what keeps me excited. I can see I've done 7k words today or only 3k words today. The days I've gotten 10k are awesome.

I'm already looking forward to next year. I know some people are all anti-Nano. That's fine. I do it for different reason than other people anyway. I do it for me. I do it to challenge myself. I'm not looking to publish, and I'm not looking to write something wonderful. I'm looking to see how much I can and do write every day.

But next year I want to do a different story. I don't want to continue this one. For one, I hope this one will be finsihed by next nano. For two, I think if I tried to continue it I'd have a hard time not going back and counting this word count. And then what happens if 12k in, it's over? Seriously.

So I want a different story for next year. Something I can write starting at the beginning again.
I have a few ideas.
I could do Alyn and Kiara.
I could do Nonna
I could do Wren and Nathan
I could do Babette again, seeing as I lost all of her stuff.
I could do Nicolette.
I could do Claire but I don't know if I'd get 50k out of her.
I could do something new. I just don't know what right now.

Oh well, I'll figure it our next year.