The End
December 1st 2009 12:21
Nanowrimo is over. Your novel may not be over, but the month is, and with any luck you got in your 50, 001 you needed to write this month. Personally I hit 250, 049 words yesterday, having written 28K in just under twelve hours. I'm pretty proud of that. Not all of it's good, but some of it is absolutely amazing.
What now, you ask? Well, any day now the 'I Wrote a Novel, Now What' page will come up on the Nanowrimo website, and the 'Big, Scary, Fun Adventures' forum will appear if all goes as it usually does. The forums, within two weeks, will be mostly dead, with only the hardcore Nanoers, the people who really love Nano and really love writing, still posting. It becomes a lot more manageable then and I find that I spend a lot more time on the forums when it goes down to that.
There are several writing challenges that have spawned from Nanowrimo, and I will be writing up a full list of these challenges with links and comments on the ones I've participated in over the next few days. I'll be writing up a big thank you/credits post at the end of the month thanking people who have helped me get through the month, websites I've found useful, and other such things.
I managed to raise $25.00 for Nanowrimo this month and I'm proud of the accomplishment both in how much I've written and how much I've raised. Not only have I written hundreds of thousands of words, but I can say that there are at least 50, 000 words that I like in there, and indeed the stories have woven together beautifully.
I hope that you're proud of whatever you've accomplished this month whether it be 10, 000 words or 100, 000, or even if it's only 10. I hope that somewhere in there there's been at least one scene, if you're lucky a whole chapter or two, that you know, even right now when you hate your novel, is a beautiful scene and is well written. It's probably not perfect, but it's probably really good for a first draft.
Whatever you've accomplished, even if you're not done with your novel, even if, like me, you still need another thirty, forty, fifty, or however many thousands of words, take a break. Take a few days off. Get caught up in whatever you've been missing out on in the world around you. For me, I've got some school assignments that are sitting at almost two weeks overdue and come December second it's time to crack the whip, once the TGIO in my area has happened.
Try to make it out to the TGIO, if there is one, in your area-the Thank God It's Over party-where you can meet people in your area, talk to people, share your noveling experiences, and depending on how cool your local Nanowrimo group is, exchange emails with people and maybe even do a reading of part of your novel. It's better to make it out late than never.
And of course you'll be hearing a lot more from me, so stick around. I've come up with some pretty crazy ideas, and I am going to be making some significant changes around here, including building a website attached to Fictional Worlds that isn't made up of Squidoo lenses, and of course posts from the last two months will be organized and put into the Fictional Worlds archive I'm building.
I'd love to hear from you including what you would like to see from me, here on my blog, what you've enjoyed on my blog over the last two months, if the posts I've been writing have helped you in any way, shape, or form, and of course I would love to hear about your Nanowrimo experience.
Have a great day guys. You deserve it.
What now, you ask? Well, any day now the 'I Wrote a Novel, Now What' page will come up on the Nanowrimo website, and the 'Big, Scary, Fun Adventures' forum will appear if all goes as it usually does. The forums, within two weeks, will be mostly dead, with only the hardcore Nanoers, the people who really love Nano and really love writing, still posting. It becomes a lot more manageable then and I find that I spend a lot more time on the forums when it goes down to that.
There are several writing challenges that have spawned from Nanowrimo, and I will be writing up a full list of these challenges with links and comments on the ones I've participated in over the next few days. I'll be writing up a big thank you/credits post at the end of the month thanking people who have helped me get through the month, websites I've found useful, and other such things.
I managed to raise $25.00 for Nanowrimo this month and I'm proud of the accomplishment both in how much I've written and how much I've raised. Not only have I written hundreds of thousands of words, but I can say that there are at least 50, 000 words that I like in there, and indeed the stories have woven together beautifully.
I hope that you're proud of whatever you've accomplished this month whether it be 10, 000 words or 100, 000, or even if it's only 10. I hope that somewhere in there there's been at least one scene, if you're lucky a whole chapter or two, that you know, even right now when you hate your novel, is a beautiful scene and is well written. It's probably not perfect, but it's probably really good for a first draft.
Whatever you've accomplished, even if you're not done with your novel, even if, like me, you still need another thirty, forty, fifty, or however many thousands of words, take a break. Take a few days off. Get caught up in whatever you've been missing out on in the world around you. For me, I've got some school assignments that are sitting at almost two weeks overdue and come December second it's time to crack the whip, once the TGIO in my area has happened.
Try to make it out to the TGIO, if there is one, in your area-the Thank God It's Over party-where you can meet people in your area, talk to people, share your noveling experiences, and depending on how cool your local Nanowrimo group is, exchange emails with people and maybe even do a reading of part of your novel. It's better to make it out late than never.
And of course you'll be hearing a lot more from me, so stick around. I've come up with some pretty crazy ideas, and I am going to be making some significant changes around here, including building a website attached to Fictional Worlds that isn't made up of Squidoo lenses, and of course posts from the last two months will be organized and put into the Fictional Worlds archive I'm building.
I'd love to hear from you including what you would like to see from me, here on my blog, what you've enjoyed on my blog over the last two months, if the posts I've been writing have helped you in any way, shape, or form, and of course I would love to hear about your Nanowrimo experience.
Have a great day guys. You deserve it.
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