crossed the tape

Dear Novelist,
You did it.
 Images Nanowrimo 2005 Nanowrimo Winner IconDespite everything else going on in your busy life, you managed to pull off the creative coup of writing a 50,000-word novel in just one month.
When the going got tough, you got typing, and in four weeks, you built vast worlds and set them in motion. You created characters; quirky, interesting, passionate souls with lives and loves and ambitions as great as yours. You stuck it out through the notoriously difficult middle stretch, and pressed onward as 80% of your fellow writers dropped out around you.
And now look at you: A NaNoWriMo winner. And the owner of a brand-new, potential-filled manuscript. It’s an amazing accomplishment, and we’re proud to have had you writing with us this year.


So, yes, it’s done. Well, the 50K words, anyway. I now have almost 100 pages of stuff to wade through, rewrite, whatever. And if I hadn’t done NaNoWriMo, I would have 0 pages.

Now to figure out what’s next. First, a celebratory beverage.

I think I will post it, serialized by section (it came apart in my hands, I swear!), and see what to make of it.

It feels good to be done, to be able to stop staring down the barrel of a daily quota, but at the same time, it’s hard to think about stopping cold. It’s worth following up on this. My average output was 1785 words/day: that would be hard to keep up and I have no intention of trying.

Look for the first installment December 1.

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