Reviewing my NaNoWriMo effort

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I'm spending some time today formatting my National Novel Writing Month novel into a readable and aesthetically agreeable condition. A PDF of it will be a holiday gift for the donors to that fund drive that I was conducting during November. I am adding to it a number of annotations that may help the reader make some sense out of certain sections and provide some insight into what the hell I was thinking at various points. My writing method, as discussed in previous entries, left a lot of holes and missing scenes and a couple of fairly weird continuity errors. Overall, however, this story is not the complete piece of crap that I had feared it would be. It actually has a fair number of good attributes, and it represents about the best that I can do writing-wise under the conditions of NaNo. One question that remains for me is whether or not this story is out of my system now, or if I will further revise it and try to finish it in a more professional manner. Even if I never touch it again, I am quite happy with it just because it's the most and best work of its kind that I have ever managed in such a short span.