How to write a novel
It made me
amazing 
"I was constantly behind on wordcount and I never felt like writing but every day I felt so good about myself because I knew how far I'd come."
How I did it: I wrote 60,000 words during NaNoWriMo (national novel writing month... http://www.nanowrimo.org/ ) and it was terrible because I was always behind and I never wanted to write and I didn't ever know what was going to happen or how it was going to end and I just wanted it to be over.
It was one of the most exciting things I've ever done. Every day, even before I wrote, even if I was behind by a lot, I felt so good about myself all the time. I mean, think about it, after the first week, if you're up to date, you should be at about 11,667 words.
It's such an amazing feeling.
There's no way to describe how I did it other than through the support of the entire community on the forums of nanowrimo.org and the write-ins hosted every so often.
I didn't finish my novel at the end of November though, and I managed to finish it around the middle of February after not working on it for two and a half months. xD. NaNoWriMo is amazing and it's what kept me going, so when it ended, so did me writing, which was awful.
Lessons & tips: The words you write are never, ever, not in a million years, going to be as good as you want them to be. You can rewrite a scene a dozen, two dozen, three dozen times and it will never be perfect.
You have to get over trying to be perfect and just try to get it out. It doesn't have to be right, it just has to be written.
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