Again with the wrimo

I have been preparing for this year's event, and I have decided to participate. I wasn't sure, because I saw myself accumulating shitty first drafts and never doing any refining and editing. Well, I decided that because I started a series last year, a la Harry Potter, I will use the synergy of nanowrimo to plunk another one out. let's face it: i wouldn't put in the same amount of hours on editing as I will on writing a shitty first draft. So, at some point, I'll figure out how to motivate myself to get some editing done in a timely fashion. I think I'm moving toward that point.

Anyway, I've reread the novel from last year, which follows the protagonist through her 7th grade year. So this year is 8th grade. I think there are several major changes I'd like to make in the first one, which I won't have time to do, so what will have to happen is that I'll write the second book as if I had written the first one differently than I did. Nice.

I just have to say that rereading what I wrote last year, I thought it was good. I think it's a good book that other people could read. Not everything is good, but as a whole, I really like it. I'll have to take out the cringe-inducing parts before I let anyone else read it, but eventually, it will come to light.