Official final word count? 50,155.

I don't know what else to say... This year was absolute terror. Election month. Wrath of the Lich King month. Left 4 Dead month. New computer month. I had an unbelievable amount of distractions and I learned too late that I absolutely cannot, for the life of me, write science fiction. It hurts my brain. Fantasy ideas come so much faster, even when I'm stuck. I had only a vague idea of what I was going to write about, which is what NaNoWriMo encourages. Go with something small and see what happens... Well, it happened, alright. It turned out not at all the way I expected. I can't write science fiction and I sure as heck can't write SCARY science fiction. As it stands, I see two separate stories here that were combined into one. One was the original horror story I had planned, and the other is some story that grew out of absolute chaos. But this is what rough drafts are for, right? Pound some rough ideas into something coherent and then decide how to proceed later. I don't see this as one huge story that doesn't work, I see it as two stories with great potential!

Now I can rest... At least for a few days. I'm planning on resuming my original fantasy story in December. Not as grueling at NaNoWriMo, but hopefully something written every day. I need to get at least one thing done! One of my goals is to get a book on the shelf with my name on it... I don't care if I'm the only one who guys it, I just want to go somewhere and see it. Even Amazon would count! So that's what I'm going to try to do... The more I write, be it blog or NaNoWriMo, the more I realize that this is what I really love doing. Computers are okay. Writing? I could do that for a living real easy.

So I'm going to take this time to say: "Congratulations to me!" And: "Everyone else, don't stop! I see some of you out there are so close, but nothing's happening... Don't let the feeling that it's 'so close, yet so far' get to you. You're almost done, SO GET CRACKING! You'll hate yourself if you leave a 45,000 word transcript sit there and die, and you'll love yourself for writing that extra 5,000 words and actually reaching a goal. I ask you, what kind of choice is that? It's no choice at all! You need to finish! You can do it!"

Stay tuned to blog posts in coming days covering what I've not had time to talk about during November!

This entry was posted on Thursday, November 27th, 2008 at 4:12 pm and is filed under NaNoWriMo.