NaNoWriMo 2009 - That's a Wrap!

[ladyseishou]

Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.

- Plautus



So how do you plan to celebrate?

The clock has struck midnight in my part of the world and so NaNoWriMo has come to a close for me this year. All-in-all, it was a pretty fantastic ride and I have 58,000 words to celebrate!

Certainly my novel needs much work before I will be able to say that it is finished but finish I will! For as Scott Westerfeld advises: Finish everything!

There will always be a part of your brain that wants to give up when characters aren't behaving, when you don't know where to go next, when the inspiration has faded.

But if you wind up not finishing ninety percent of what you start, guess what happens. After a few years you'll have written 100 beginnings, 40 middles, and only 10 endings. Which means you'll be great at writing beginnings, only so-so at middles, and you'll suck at endings. Which means you will almost certainly keep faltering between the middle and the end of every story, which means you'll keep giving up and not finishing . . . Rinse, repeat.

And that's a hole you don't want to fall into. So finish, even if you know this story isn't going to win you the Nobel Prize—it's good practice to type THE END.

Many thanks to Nano Writer otter_nanowrimo for the quote!

But today I celebrate!

Today's image was created by Nano Writer cheyinka (thanks!) which beautifully captures the spirit of the day! What are your plans Nano Writer now that the month is done? For me, I plan to sleep and spend time with my family! And I have a "shrimp" dinner reward to collect!

So for the while Nano Writer, celebrate!

Comments

[twistingthetale]

Well I've done the red wine and chocolate thing, so now I'm catching up on some books and TV programmes that were neglected during NaNo. I'll be away from 11th - 14th December and doing absolutely nothing, and although I've printed and read my novel from start to finish now and corrected a few errors by hand, I'm not planning on doing anything else with it until the New Year.

[ladyseishou]

Sounds like a great plan!