NaNoWriMo Recap
I now have a feather to put in my cap and a web badge to put on my site. NaNoWriMo is over (well, it’s officially over Sunday night, but I pushed myself to be finished by Thanksgiving), and I have a novel under my belt! Of course, I’d like to double its length (it’s only about 175 pages at this point), but I can take my time with that.
Writing under the gun like that is not entirely new to me; it’s just been a while. I worked three jobs while in college, and, as an English major, I wrote my fair share of papers at 4 AM. What was new about doing NaNoWriMo was that I didn’t go back and edit a single thing. I didn’t read over anything I had written. I just churned out words and forged ahead. I felt like it wasn’t fair – I labored over all of these words (often up to 2700 a night), and I just forced myself to click save and continue. I didn’t get to enjoy them, savor them, rearrange them until they were perfect. I’m not used to writing fiction that way – so unattached. It was difficult at first, but I realized that it was the only way to get all the words down in the time that I had.
Now that it’s over, I’m looking forward to the following:
- Catching up with Nigel and Aidan, who are glad to have their mom back
- Cleaning my house (the end result more than the actual cleaning, of course)
- Reading whatever it is that I wrote! I wrote so fast that I can’t remember!
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5 Responses to “NaNoWriMo Recap”
November 28th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
congrats on your achievement. So will it be published here or elsewhere?
November 29th, 2008 at 2:57 am
Well done!
November 29th, 2008 at 10:02 am
Wow! You must feel so great!! Now that the hard stuff is done, you can go back and edit or “beautify” the book. Great job!!
November 1st, 2009 at 8:33 pm
[...] Month). The object was to complete a 50,000-word (approximately 170-page) novel in 30 days, and somehow I did it! It’s a very rough draft, of course, and I intend for the finished book to be double the [...]
November 1st, 2009 at 9:06 pm
Yes, but if I remember right the site only let you read the first few pages of it, and *I* was deeply dissapointed! I wanted to read the whole thing
Will you let people read last year’s?
Granted I’m already behind one reading someone else’s book, but hey, for whenever I catch up, I could always use more, I love reading engaging writing
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