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50,140 words and that means I WIN NaNoWriMo for the second year!

*Happy Dance*

I got to 50K at a write in at the Loft tonight and got a nice round of applause.

There’s still some tying up at the end stuff, so I’ll keep writing until the end of the month like I did last year.

This was one of those odd ideas that occurs during NaNo, and as one should in these situations, I just went with it. This was written at The Loft in the company of people who were good enough to laugh when I described the situation to them.

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The other main character of my novel. He’s doing his best to take over it.

(Please note: This is fresh from NaNoWriMo and is UNEDITED)

The young man, not much more than a boy, walked down the main street of the village. Behind him, everything was in flames. Ahead of him, people fled, some of them screaming. At each house and building he came to, the young man raised his arms and shot flames out, standing in front of it until the structure was engulfed. Then he moved on to the next one. He gave almost no thought to the possibility of people still being inside the buildings. The smart ones had already fled. When he came across a man he recognized as one who had been at his house that night, he burned him as well.

Tenai hadn’t come across any in the last several minutes. The men had run much faster than the women and children.

A stumbling, crying woman clutched her child’s hand as she ran across Tenai’s path. She tripped, over something in the street or over her own two feet. As she struggled to rise, she turned to shield her child from Tenai’s approach. “Please …” she begged when Tenai was only a few feet away. For a moment, the rage in his eyes faltered. He made a wide circle around the pair, leaving them clutching each other in the dusty road.

The rage rose back up in him, like fire caught on a fresh log. This village would burn. By tomorrow it would be nothing but charred timbers and ash. And the men that had fled wouldn’t get far. Tenai would follow them, to the ends of the earth if he needed to. Every last one of them would die.

I’m doing quite well this year for NaNoWriMo. Today I made it to 35,000 words, and for those that don’t know, that’s 4 days earlier than needed.  I’ve got thirteen days left to make it to 50,000 and things are looking good.

If anyone is interested, here’s an excerpt:

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