NANOWRIMO is over and this year I can count myself among the "winners."
That seems a little weird to me, though, that with National Novel Writing Month there are winners and losers. The way I see it, if you fell short of the goal and wrote . . . erm, say, 40,000 words, then that is 40,000 words you wrote on a brand new story that you didn't have before. So, if you participated, congratulations on the start of your novel, whether you reached 50,000 words or not.
(Word of advice for those doing NANO: don't used Open Office. Overall, I like the program, but there will be a discrepancy in your work count, so be careful.)
But I won and I ordered the t-shirt. I've never reached the 50,000 word count goal before and I can honestly tell you I was shaking. I was also running sprints in the chat room I was in, so it was doubly nice to have people to celebrate with.
I hadn't planned to even open the document until my birthday, on the 16th of December, but when I got up this morning I couldn't not work on it. (Alert: Double Negative in play.) I have a lot of editing and writing to do before I can even let anyone else read it. The book is currently entitled "The Quill & The Mirror" and I have a feeling it'll stay that way. Yesterday, when I was daydreaming at the bowling alley - yeah, I know, whatever - I came up with an idea for another story using these characters. Will I write it? Maybe. I wasn't planning on working with these characters again, but it's hard to let go.
I've created this world that I've come to love and this is before I've done any editing. Well, I deleted the words I had marked for deletion and went over some spelling and grammar. So, there was a little bit of editing.
I have a lot of work to do, so I'm going to get to it.
Happy NANO, everyone!
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