write a novel

My first year of participating in NaNoWriMo was a success. I finished with a word count of 50,907 words. Of course, the novel isn’t really finished. I’d saw it’s probably 2/3 or 1/2 way finished. At some point I hit a point where I realized the story had a lot more of a journey to go.

This has been a busy month for me, with writing for this and training for and running the Seattle Marathon, and I think I’m gonna take a break from writing for December. In January I’ll pick it back up and hopefully finish it, then take a few months to edit it. We’ll see.

For me, I’m just happy that I wrote so many words in such a short time. It makes me think that writing for a living may be possible. :)

This year I decided to participate, and all month I’ve been striving for a 50,000 word novel. I’m close. So close I can smell it. I’ve got a little over 6,000 to go. Cross your fingers for me.