Formatting my NaNo

Finally finished formatting my NaNo story. It was so hard! The story was totally incomplete, so I decided to just fix up Part 1, but to make Part 1 good enough to stand alone... I had to add in an extra scene. My writing was so sloppy there... wrote it all yesterday and today. :'D Am totally unable to write these characters now. I bet some parts don't even connect correctly because of this inserted scene. OTL Took out the very last scene of Part 1 (Rykatu's behavior is a bit off there, but I can't seem to fix it) and instead used the first section of Part 2 (Ikatchi's POV) as the ending so that it's not as abrupt... but I don't know how well that works. XD; I'm at least not as dissatisfied with the entire thing. Except I still think the result is not a story, because stories need plot. >__> I'm too used to writing character pieces and single scenes for fanfic... The page numbers and margins also confused me, but I think I have everything formatted correctly now. I consider this young adult. I left my font the same size I was using (arial, size 11). Pretty huge font for print! XD; It makes the entire thing 143 pages (plus blank pages and title pages).

I also tacked this on at the end on the last page as a teaser. Spoiler for the ending. XD;

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I commissioned seta_suzume some art of these characters for help_japan. The result is so cute! You can view the full versions over here (top three drawings). I already made an icon of one of the drawings! XD Three of these characters haven't really made much of an appearance in the story yet (or they haven't even appeared). I wonder when I'll ever get around to them. XD;

( resized version, with my commentary about the characters )

Hopefully I can send my novel in soon. Still waiting on the cover. XD;