At 11:57 I uploaded my novel to the Nanowrimo site and got my validation as a WINNER! Yippee! The deadline was midnight, I just made it. Now I have a fairly garbled novel that's going to take a while to sort out. I'll keep working on it, and on another one that I actually like a bit better that I started last year but didn't finish. Out of this I hope that we'll continue to meet our fellow Fairbanks Nano-ers and create a nice support/critique/brainstorm group to keep us writing all year. And finally, I hope to publish both novels sometime in the next two years, either on my own or with a publisher. But don't hold your breath, both these babies are going to take some work to get them ready for public consumption.