Did I Mention I Finished....

Okay so last year I tried to write every day of the month and we all know how that turned out (not quite).  This year I wasn't sure if I was even doing Nano until the 31st of October and then at about 10:30 that night I decided what the heck.  I went ahead and let it rip and it more or less fell.

I started out slower than normal but I had already figured that I wouldn't make the same totals as last year considering that my time is way busier this year.  Still I was doing better than I thought.  The problem was, or at least the problem in my opinion, was that I was writing like three different novels at once.  I would have a thought about this one and I would write that but then another one would pop in my head and I would write that one.  It was really starting to get confusing but one jumped out and was like "no you are writing me" and that was all she wrote or rather I wrote.

I found myself concentrating on a novel that I had start around the first of the year but never really went any further than a couple of pages of a prologue and a little bit of a synopis and character introduction.  Yet these character would not sit still.  They came into the forefront and the next thing I knew I was really writing.  Like every chance I got writing.  I even managed to reach the 50K before my birthday which is always a goal and something I had done the previous two years.  To say I was surprised would be like saying the economy sucks.  Obvious.

Anyhoo, I was also using a new software called Scrivener and although it isn't a "new" new software it was new to me in the sense that I had downloaded the beta to test it last year and really did nothing but look at it and say "it's pretty" and then move on.  This year I really dove in and wrote the whole thing in it and in the process fell in love.  I tell you that software kept me on target way more than any other time I have ever written anything.  I even did a rough outline using their index card method and the biggest surprise of the month was that I actually FINISHED THE NOVEL!!!!

You read that right.  I got to those elusive word "The End" and was able to write a little bit of the sequel.  I can't tell you what a joy it was to actually finish.  I have finished a few short stories and almost all the fanfiction that I have written but never one of my own original novels; never something this long.

Now there are A LOT  of edits that need to get done but I can't wait to dive back into it and start.  That is on hold until after the first or at the very least after Christmas as I have so much to catch up on, namely sleep, but once I am back at it I think I could really turn this into something.

So there you have it.  I know that I didn't do the updates that I normally do but can you blame me when the result is an COMPLETED NOVEL!!!  Sorry but I can't stop saying it.  Oh well, I am off to finish my real work and hopefully get to the movies this afternoon.

Talk soon-ish,