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I wish that my novel had more magical realism.

So, the novel, at least the first draft of it, is finished. The plot lasted all 50,000 words, and I didn't even need to add a semi-random, completely senseless sex scene somewhere in the middle there. Which is good, because I can't write smut. It always comes out wrong somehow.

I really do wish I wove in some more magical realism than I did, but not explaining some things would have meant sacrificing more words than I was willing to lose during NaNoWriMo. That would just have to be something I'll put in (or take out, as it were) when I start editing it in February or something.

I also wish I went into the back stories I thought up in October, like the one for Natalia (dame in today's half-finished sketch) and her 'brother' Pablo. It was a neat sidestory, too, but it never came into play. Oh well. Maybe if I decide to write a sequel next year.

I also wish I wrote the main love interest better, or, at least, colder and more asshole-like. I mean, that was who he was supposed to have been, but by the end, he comes off more of a secondary character.

Maybe that was his fate, to be regulated to second-class status.

Right, November's over. Back to fanfiction, I guess.