After a month of sneaking in writing whenever possible, and probably some times when I should have been working, I finally did it! I completed 50,000 words worth of a novel during the National Novel Writing Month! Yippee! I haven't written that many words about one subject ... EVER! So this is awesome for me.
I started out with a very steady pace of a couple thousand words a day ... which lasted about a week. Then, I had a few days where I fell behind, having to concentrate on other things, or just plain getting unmotivated. But then, I had a couple of days where I wrote 5,000 words or 8,000 words! It helped that Ben went out of town on those days so I didn't have to worry about things like fixing a big meal or making sure laundry was done.
Then, just before Thanksgiving, I was around 49,000 words ... soooooo close! But, I was cooking my first Thanksgiving Dinner so I had to put off the writing for a few days and clean the house, prepare the bird, find the perfect recipes - yada, yada, yada.
But, this morning, I woke up before Ben and decided I was going to get this sucker finished TODAY. And it only took me an hour or so to get to the grand prize - 50,000 words!!!!!! Woo Hoo! As you can tell, I'm pretty stoked. <--- and I don't think I've ever used that phrase in real life.
Yeah me! Now I just have to remember to take the time to finish the darn thing. There still isn't an ending and there are a LOT of inconsistencies, but I still like the basic story, so there's a good chance I will finish it ... sometime in January! LOL
That's all for now. Hope everyone had an enjoyable Thanksgiving and didn't get carried away with their Black Friday spending!
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Posted by: Heather Seward (RDH) | January 31, 2009 at 06:13 PM