There are less than two days of NaNoWriMo left for 2009. I will finish above 50K this year, as I always have. The story will not be finished at a measly 50,000 words, which is also per usual. Most of my stories worth reading are around 90K.
This one should be close to that when it is finished. The hard part is actually finishing once I don’t have the hammer of Nano hanging over me. There are still huge gaps in the story, since I was having trouble filling in some of them, and I jumped ahead to the ending. The cool thing about writing the ending first is that now I know what I need to do in the middle to make all the ends match. The uncool thing about writing the ending is that that is the most exciting part of the story, and to write it means that that exciting part of my writing is done, and I don’t get to draw on that excitement to write the middle.
My goal is to keep working, spending two or three nights a week writing until my rough draft is done, hopefully by the end of December. Then I will figuratively “put it away” and let it steep for a month, and begin editing in February. With any luck at all, Without a Net will publish around September, 2010.
I hope all of my friends and buddies have done their very best this month to reach the goal, which was 50,000 in 30 days. No one said it had to be good, no one said it had to be finished, no one said it had to be publish-worthy. The goal is to get that story out and onto paper/computer screen. I applaud all successes, and all attempted failures. For those that gave up? Well, I have harsher words, but I won’t share them here. I believe everyone has a story in them, they just need permission to get them out. And that’s what NaNoWriMo does for me.
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