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So, it's official. My words have been counted and at 57,638 words, I'm a winner.
This year's NaNoWriMo has definitely been a good experience, because it got my out of a rut, and it taught me to keep limber, not to get set in one mode of writing. It also taught me that you can have organized chaos in a novel and it works.
I don't know if this is a project I'll continue working on. I have comments trickling back in from those who are reading the Tower!Guy novel, and the positive feedback as well as the extremely helpful critiques have me thinking that it's something worth seeing to the end, the end being publication of course.
NaNoWriMo is always a worthwhile venture, I believe, whether you win or lose, because either way, you learn something. You try. You write.
Thing about writing is? It's one of the few things that's entirely human. More and more we learn that monkeys, dogs, dolphins, can do things that we thought only people were capable of.
But human beings are the only animals that I'm aware of that can take the worlds and universes and souls that live inside their head and externalize them, make them real, and invite others in to discover things that even the author didn't see.
Congrats to those who have already won, and a big "keep going!" to those who have yet to get to the finish line. You've still got plenty of time, and with determination, you really can do it.
To those of us who survived the month, who went full goose bozo, who displayed the necessary dodginess of mental health, I salute you!
This year's NaNoWriMo has definitely been a good experience, because it got my out of a rut, and it taught me to keep limber, not to get set in one mode of writing. It also taught me that you can have organized chaos in a novel and it works.
I don't know if this is a project I'll continue working on. I have comments trickling back in from those who are reading the Tower!Guy novel, and the positive feedback as well as the extremely helpful critiques have me thinking that it's something worth seeing to the end, the end being publication of course.
NaNoWriMo is always a worthwhile venture, I believe, whether you win or lose, because either way, you learn something. You try. You write.
Thing about writing is? It's one of the few things that's entirely human. More and more we learn that monkeys, dogs, dolphins, can do things that we thought only people were capable of.
But human beings are the only animals that I'm aware of that can take the worlds and universes and souls that live inside their head and externalize them, make them real, and invite others in to discover things that even the author didn't see.
Congrats to those who have already won, and a big "keep going!" to those who have yet to get to the finish line. You've still got plenty of time, and with determination, you really can do it.
To those of us who survived the month, who went full goose bozo, who displayed the necessary dodginess of mental health, I salute you!
