It’s Finally Over
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Nov 29th, 2004 |
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Officially I hit the finish line yesterday at 2 p.m., uploading my ReallyBadOh novel with its 51,700 well-chosen words (right…). Doing a project like the National Writing Novel Month (NaNoWriMo) does funny things to one’s brain, as evidenced by the comments below I pulled from the NaNoWriMo forum. These were all posted in threads such as “Things I Learned…”. I’ll be posting a more in-depth look at my own observations, insights, and conclusions from the month-long writing exercise later, but in the meantime, the comments below from other NaNo-ers show just how over the edge we all go near or at the end:
- “I have to just accept the fact that I write romance and the love of my life will absolutely hate everything I write.”
- “Supportive husbands rock. (maybe that should be singular – I just have the one)”
- “Who Needs Sleep?’ by Barenaked Ladies is every NaNo-er’s theme song.”
- “Whoa, look at that, a plot. I didn’t think I had one but there it is rearing its ugly little head. Good plot, good boy, you get a cookie for finally showing up.”
- “NEVER RUN OUT OF COFFEE. (Umm. I think you can see by this that I actually did run out of coffee once. Never again.)”
- “Try to write more description and less dialog. Dialog is easy for me to write…I have files with nothing but dialog. These people in my Nano novel just never shut up. Seriously.”
- “SURE I can write 5k per day and finish in a blaze of glory. And pigs fly. We call it Air Pork.”
- “After writing 4751 words in one day your brain dribbles out your ears and ‘fire bad, tree pretty’ finally makes sense.”
- “I can surpass my expectations if I tell my inner editor to go shove it.”
- “I scare myself sometimes.”
- “Writer’s Blocks will fall down if you bludgeon them with enough words.”
- “Getting back on the horse is a lot harder than falling off of it. Especially if the horse hates you by this point.”
3 Responses to “It’s Finally Over”
Air Pork? BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Congrats! I know exactly how you feel. I hit the 50K just before Thanksgiving. Whew.
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Congrats on your completion, Gary!