Post 223 | Novel

I wrote a novel. An entire novel. My word count stands firm at 50,075. The goal was 50,000. I don't know how it happened but everything kind of wrapped up perfectly around that 49,900 mark. It was weird. But I did it!

Multiple times during the month I would sit back and look at it and just shake my head like no way in hell was this going to happen. But here I stand, well sit, across that finish line, with a completed novel on my hard drive. I should probably save it in other places, eh?

That took me 26 days. If you go back and look at my graph you can see the insane writing days I had in there. I thing the most I wrote was yesterday, just under 9,000 words in one day. That's craaaaaazy. That is so many damn words!

I am pretty happy with how it turned out. I don't really want to go into detail about what happened during the entire thing but there was happy and there was great sadness. Lot's of lows and highs. I almost made another low happen at the end but I decided against it, instead giving one of the characters more of a chance to talk something out rather than act rashly.

In the end I think I did alright. It's probably not that great if someone read through it, but I think it is decent enough. I worked pretty hard on it and am very proud of myself for completing it.

Now I have to snap back into the real world. These next two weeks have a lot of work in them and I should really get cracking on some of it. I'll probably work on my radio project and that take home test for ethics after all of my classes today.

Ugh, those are going to be painful, but I need to get them done I suppose. The sooner I finish that take home test the sooner I can get cracking on that research paper.

Anyways, I wrote a novel, I'm proud of that accomplishment. I may email some of my old teachers and see what they think of it, maybe in my creative writing class next semester I'll have a chance to go back into it and fine tune a bunch of it. There are some things I know that could be better, but some that I really like.

I probably wont post here much over the next three weeks or so, due to the end of the semester, but I'll see if any thoughts come to mind worth writing. Thanks for reading as always, stay awesome.