I finished. I just crossed the 50,000-word mark, wrapped up my epilogue and stuck a fork in The Least, my 2008 National Novel Writing Month novel.
Whew.
It was quite a sprint at the end, when I wrote more than 6,500 words in one day to overcome loses from the holiday and travel but then just kept on going to finish a day early.
The novel itself isn’t spectacular. Few NaNoWriMo novels are, but this one by far has more glaring holes and painful moments than my previous efforts. But that’s OK. That’s not what’s important. Just doing it is important, and I did it. Now I can call myself a Sci-Fi novelist.
You can read it if you like, though I’m not really recommending that.
Congrats! I plan to use the month of December to catch up on reading and sleep — so hopefully I’ll have time to read your novel before I start that dreaded editing process in 2009 :-(.
:-)
Way to go!
Congratulations! I’m impressed. It seems like an insurmountable thing, but maybe I should give it a try next year.