National Novel Writing Month is done—and won—for the third straight year. The novel is 91,700 words, quite a bit more than my 75,000-word goal. But there are still places that need filling out and the novel is terribly disjointed. I need to read it through and do a major edit. I am also dissatisfied with the character of my protagonist. I wanted to make him less of the sort of nice guy that populate my other novels (all except The Man Terror Club), but what I have written is a patient, caring, though judgmental man. He is not as irascible and sarcastic on the outside as I had imagined him. Turning him into that less lovable character may take more than a single rewrite.

My two past NaNoWriMo novels have each required more extensive rewrites than I had thought they would need. I know this one needs a big rewrite, and it makes me wonder just what is in store for me and the characters I have created.