This is the last day to slay 50K and win the NaNo
Challenge. How are you doing?
I hope you didn’t give up and throw in the towel. Even if you are short of the 50K, you still
have that much written toward what may become a masterpiece later. And even if it doesn’t, the NaNo is a good
writing exercise to keep your mind active.
I know firsthand it’s been a stressful month.
I attained my goal of hitting the 50K mark the day before
Thanksgiving. I set that date for myself
from the get-go and I would do it no matter what. This contest takes a lot of
determination. You can’t let anything
stand in our way of writing daily or going on long marathons of writing at one
time.
On the twenty-sixth, my husband asked me if I’d
finished. Yes, he discovered I was doing
NaNo this year. I told him no, but the
day wasn’t over yet, at which he gave me a look that either said “are you
crazy? Or you mean you’ll continue
writing until midnight if that’s what it takes?” Of course he knew the answer to that already
because he knows how tenacious I can be.
So at 11:30 PM on Thanksgiving eve, I checked my word count
to verify my novel on the NaNo site and found I had 51,781 words and enough to
win the competition even though my book isn’t finished. Now I could breathe easier and have a more
relaxed Thanksgiving.
I’ll set that manuscript aside for now with notes on how I intend to finish the story and go back to my first mystery novel, rewrite the next chapter, and get that to the girl who is kind enough to read it for me and make suggestions.
One day down the road, I’ll have a mystery series I can
publish. I’ve got three books written so
far although the last one, which was my NaNo entry this year, isn’t finished
and all three need to be edited and rewrites done.
But I feel I’m making headway as a writer and learning a lot
along the way. I know I still have the
stamina to finish 50K in a month and that feels good. This was my third year at NaNoWriMo.
Does anybody else want to share how they did?
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