2008 was by far my absolute worst NaNoWriMo disaster. Yes, I reached 50,000 words. But like 2005, I’d planned a story all October, then ditched it a couple of days into November. And while 2005 was a fairly awful story, at least it had some characters I cared about, even if I had to import them from elsewhere. 2008… it is probably the worst thing I have ever written. Here is one of the two main characters. I couldn’t recall if she has a last name and, after scanning through the story for as long as I could bear, couldn’t find one. I couldn’t remember what she looked like, either. For me, this is not at all normal, as I’m sort of absurdly loyal to the fake people in my head. The only reason I’m drawing her at all is because I wanted some representation of every year, and when a story’s called Allie & Paul I should at least draw Allie and Paul. So here is Allie. Later, Paul. And then we will never speak of this again.