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Post by Retired Blub on Nov 30, 2006 15:14:33 GMT -5
Wolf, I admire you so much. If I only had the will that you posses! XD Must...reach...50k.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2006 23:43:04 GMT -5
I have finished. At 11:3o pm, I was done. *passes out*
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Post by Ebil on Nov 30, 2006 23:44:59 GMT -5
That's... that's just.... awe-inspiring.... *bows down*
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Post by Ginz ❤ on Nov 30, 2006 23:59:10 GMT -5
Wow... congratulations, Writingwolf! A 150k NaNo... simply amazing!
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Post by Tashni on Dec 1, 2006 0:29:40 GMT -5
How do you DO that?! You have to be a fast typer. And fast thinker.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2006 10:36:44 GMT -5
Thank you all so very much. I am... speechless.
Throughout this entire time, everyone here, or at least an incredible amount of you, have been here, and if not for the encouragement you have all given me, knowingly or not, I would never have been able to do this.
Thank you.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2006 11:23:51 GMT -5
Alright, I think I may at last be able to recount yesterday.
Surprisingly, I woke up late. Even more surprisingly, I finished my schoolwork before noon.
But I didn't start writing until around two, I think, but I honestly can't remember times very well...
I wrote in an interesting way yesterday. I wrote with the keyboard pulled onto my lap. Though it took me a few minutes to get used to the position, as I am used to using a desk with the keyboard, once I got used to the better posture, I was more comfortable and that actually let me type faster, my mindless meditative writing supremely swifter than usual.
And I never looked at my word count. I think that helped me write more freely, too.
I had the intention of writing to all of the music I've been listening to NaNo on the last day. I wrote to the Dixie Chicks' Home, and once that grew old around eight or nine, Sheryl Crow's self-titled album. In fact, I ended upon the song "If It Makes You Happy." In fact, victory does, very much so.
In the end, the novel has 223 chapters and an epilogue. It is bigger than the fourth Harry Potter book.
This has been an amazing experience, more amazing than almost everything preceding this in my life. In one month, I wrote more than I have written in a single year in the past. In one month, I wrote an entire novel. The first novel I wrote took me three years to write, and I had had that conceived an additional two years prior. For this, the idea was conceived only a little more than a month before I began writing.
My goal was to prove to myself that I could write as swiftly as the great writers of this world, those who dish out novels like dinners and make their living off of writing. That is my dream, to be a famous and published author, my books giving readers worldwide the joy that their works have given me. And having written nearly 200,000 words in one month, I think, once I am able to make writing my life, I will be able to do that. I know I am capable of it now.
Will I ever do NaNoWriMo again? Definitely, until I can no longer write, I shall do this every year.
Will I ever set my goal at 150k again? No, never. I'll stick with a peaceful goal of 80-120k, the average size of most novels.
Now that I have won, reached my goal and surpassed it, what will I do? For one, I am taking a break from writing for the weekend. I have things I want to catch up on, reading in particular. Then, until the new year, I hope to edit one piece I have been procrastinating on and finally finish Avalie, and maybe have it ready for submission come the end of this month. Then, once both of those are finished, there's a few stories I want to write while I get back to writing, no, finishing my trilogy. I don't think I'll keep my daily goal 5000 words anymore, though. I think 1000 words will make for a nice, peaceful pace, maybe 2000 words if I work my schedule to take the weekend off from writing, to rest my hands and read a bit, to do some knitting, too, maybe.
And what are my plans for Muse Misplaced? After I finish Avalie and get the editing done on my other projects, I'll begin putting time into Muse Misplaced again. It is almost 50,000 words over the average word count that a novel written by an unpublished writer will be accepted for publication, so what I wanted to be my first publishable piece might have actually been overshot. Nevertheless, I shall commit myself to polishing it up (especially the end, where I wrote somewhat sloppily to get all the words out by midnight) and getting it ready for publication.
After all, simply finishing this novel was an accomplishment. Getting it published will not be too impossible.
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