NaNoWriMo is successfully over! I hit my 50,003 word count early on November 30 and have not yet gone back to write more. That’s okay – my goal is the end of December, and both Jake and the rest of my lovely cheerleading corner are going to keep me to that. I’m only four chapters (three and an epilogue, really) away from wrapping up draft one and crossing the first of many finish lines with A God Grown Old!
I’m really excited and encouraged right now. This book has real potential, especially for what it is – a simple enough story with a fun cast of characters. I’ll of course need to go back and retool a lot, but as it stands, this is a pretty solid and satisfying first draft. There are parts that I cried while writing, parts I grew angry about, and scenes I flew through because I could see them so clearly (see: drug-induced vision in a cavern. Shhhhh!). So, the plan is to charge through the rest of this draft (my guess is around 15k words more), then leave it alone for a month or two while I focus on something else for a little while. Then it will be time to edit!