Novel Accomplishments

I’ve only gone and bloomin’ done it!

I have just completed NanoWriMo, with a grand total of 51,182 words to my novel.

I was actually jumping about with excitement, and not without a little relief, after completing the last sentence to what has got to be my biggest writing achievement, ever.

This whole novel writing business has actually taught me a lot of things in the past 30 days:

• Persistence
• Commitment
• Repeating the same routine day after day
• Not giving up
• Not listening to my inner critic
• Writing even when I didn’t want to
• Writing even after I made every excuse not to
• Wanting to get to the finish line

No, it wasn’t easy and no I didn’t write every day (in fact by my count, there were a total of six days I didn’t write anything), but I knew that I wanted more than anything to get the 50,000 word count done, so on the days I couldn’t write, I made up for it on the days I could.

The novel will have loads of spelling mistakes, will be grammatically incorrect in many places and is probably the lamest story every written but I don’t care because it’s finished and it’s a novel.  Yes, novel sounds great!