Nov
NaNoWriMo – Thank You!
Last year I sat down before my keyboard for thirty full days (minus getting the flu twice) and wrote 50,000 words. The story in my head was not finished and though I still plan on working on it- it still isn’t finished.
This year I sat down before my keyboard for nearly thirty days, typing away and wearing the letters off a good few of my keys (seriously). I stayed up well into the night, forgoing sleep from time to time because even when my fingers weren’t moving my brain still was and wouldn’t let me rest. I organized write-ins, told friends and family, and then pushed my self to the limits and beyond.
As a result I have the most wonderful news possible, the greatest achievement in my young life.
I wrote a novel.
For a total of 168,635 words, 600 some odd pages, 3000 some odd paragraphs, sweat, tears, and love.
Kat’s Tail was completed Thanksgiving night. :) We went to Red Lobster today to celebrate.
Tags: NaNoWriMo!
30Nov
Oooh, you’re finished! Congratulations! Do I get to read it?
30Nov
Yaaay! Oh, congratulations! That’s really exciting news. I remember back in July when I completed my first novel. Honestly, I recall just wanting to float up to the moon. Interestingly enough, my word count was only 20k off of yours – mine came out to 188k. It’s undergoing revision this December, and I expect quite a lot will be cut out.
So are you thinking about your next story, or are you just basking in the glow of having done such a task for a while?
30Nov
Branth: *hug* Thank you! :D Yes, you get to read it, just let me tweak some things up a bit first so it makes sense. Names have changes and plots have turns from where they started and right now it’d only make sense to me. Give me a lil longer and I’ll send you the whole bulk of it.
30Nov
Chibi: Thank you! I think I might just be on the moon still, it’s weird in my head to hear myself chanting ‘I wrote a book’ and still not have it sink quite in yet. Yeah, I imagine a lot of mine will be cut down to but in the end I just imagine it means a lot less for my spell check to have to handle, lol.
I think right now I’m basking and contemplating the editing process but yes, there are so many stories I haven’t told yet and the one I finished has a lot of room for another bit. Now that I know how to make myself finish a book I really think things will be easier to accomplish. I mean, I never thought before now that I would ever live to see one of my stories done. I think I might have even typed ‘the end’ just to help the whole thing settle in.