Is a NaNoWriMo winner, yay!
Well, this year's 50.000 words are done. At the moment it's a terrible, terrible, novel: horribly disjointed, part-English, part-Dutch, full of placeholders and lame dialogue, with plot holes you can drive a truck through, filled to the brim with unbearably cute kids - just terrible. This is going to need a LOT of work.
But for the very first time I actually have a plot, and, more importantly, I have written an ending, a genuine ending, so I feel good about this one. Even if it is still a ridiculous pile of zero-eth draft nonsense.
This was a very relaxed NaNo, with a steady, sustainable pace, no tantrums and not that many doubts. I had fun with it, fun with coming up with characters I wanted to put in danger and do terrible things to (even if I've sort of forgotten to actually name them - two of my main characters still go by the monikers The Writer and The Old Man, and my heroine goes by Cayce, short-hand for Make Her Awesome, While Figuring Out What To Call Her).
Who cares if the plot is very Michael Chrichton at the moment. I did it again! Yay.
30-11-2011
