Yay! I finished writing my 50,000 words last night (50,055)!! I have been officially informed that I kicked butt this month by Chris Baty, founder of National Novel Writing Month and inducted into the winner's circle at NaNoWriMo.org, a place where fireworks burst overhead in the November sky to celebrate my victory. I cried.
My story isn't all written yet. I'm a long way off from "the end" but I got an awesomely spectacular start.
Chris Baty gave back my Inner Editor last night, which he confiscated at the beginning of week one. I'm planning on deleting everything my Inner Editor would have if it were with me during my 30 days of literary abandon, reorganizing my chapters, and continuing from there. I don't know how many words that will leave me with, but I'm not counting anymore. I like my story and I want to see it through to the end.
I don't know if I'm ready to show it to anyone... I don't even want to post a synopsis. Yet.
Side note: Isn't the winner's badge above hideous!? I got a winner's certificate, too:
It says: "One brave Writer. One impossible deadline. One crazy month where 170,000 people set out on a journey to the furthest reaches of their imaginations. Most turned back along the way but not you. You had the vision, dedication, and creative drive to make it to the 50,000-word finish line and beyond. You did an amazing thing this November, novelist, and the Office of Letters and Light congratulates you for it. Your victory shall be entered ino the official records of National Novel Writing Month, where it will stand for all time." (awww...)
2 comments:
way to go Dwynnie!!!!!!!!!
You're my hero! I only did 6,459 words.
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