The blogging has taken second seat to NaNoWriMo this past month, but that flurry of fictional formulating is now at and end for me. Today is actually the last day of NaNoWriMo, but I finished my story the day before yesterday, with a total word count of 66,333 (a supremely bizarre number, but I'll take it as a good omen). I've submitted my lengthy file to the NaNo website and am a confirmed winner.
Unsuprisingly, this feels incredibly good. First of all, to have written over 66,000 words in twenty-eight days is a major accomplishment. But for me, that wasn't even the best part. The capper for me was actually finishing a novel. I've started novels before; I've even written many, many words and many, many pages of novels before. Three novels, to be exact. But until this very month, I have never before in my life brought a novel-sized story to a full and satisfying ending.
And it all happened rather magically, I must say… Read the rest of this entry »
