For the third year in a row: "Hey, I could probably pull it off this year. Why not give it a shot?" Thrity days later: "Wait, it was November?!!?! Since when? I thought we were still in October! ;.;"
My first year I didn't win, but I reached 37k and finished my draft. Won the next three years, but this year I just couldn't get it churned out. Ah, well. On the plus side, I did more writing in November than I have in recent months, so that's a win of one sort.
I came up short with 32,015, but I'm not too disappointed. It was my first year, and this is probably the longest work I've ever done! Plus, I actually finished the story, at this point I really just need to elaborate more and add back in a plot line that I dropped early on
I finished! I even put in double the word count on the last few days so that I would finish before Thanksgiving! Heaven only knows if I'll ever end up taking a second look at that draft, but I did learn a lot and it was a good habit to get into, now I feel like if I don't write some each day I'm wasting away my life!
'Cause your own story, is the safest place you'll ever be ~Echosmith
I was on the last day, and decided that with 6 hours of straight writing at my normal speed, I'd get the last 20K in easy. Then there was a change of plans. So instead of going home and writing in my homeland, I was writing on a plane.
Apparently planes can help your concentration. A lot. And so after 7 hours on two planes, I had the 20K written. But when I got off the plane and into a place with wi-fi, it was 1:00 in the morning, December 1st.
You are going to love some of your characters because they are you, or some facet of you, and you are going to hate some characters for the same reason. — Anne Lamott
