National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is over—I won for the second straight year—and it is time to balance out my life again. I started a few days ago. My daily word count slowed down a week earlier because the text was over 80,000 words and I had told the story. I tried over a few days to just write a little, but it was hard not to let it consume me, and I struggled when it was time to change gears. So I focused more on my job. Still, I was tempted to tinker. So I have been filling things in, doing little bits of editing, adding metadata to the Scrivener file, etc. in the days since I finished the basic story. Now the word count stands at 95,700. I have a little to add in December, but otherwise the novel is ready to put on the shelf for a month or two before I start an edit. I don’t think, though, that it needs a major rewrite like last year’s NaNoWriMo novel did. That feels good.