Yes, okay, I'm not finished with my NaNo book yet. I've been writing steadily on it, though, working hard to wrap it up with a reasonable ending.
I reread the whole thing for the first time yesterday, and you know what? It's actually pretty good. That's the main reason why I decided to take a little more time to finish it; the beginning is so promising, and the follow-through not bad either, that it seemed a shame to rush the ending just to get it done. That's essentially what I did with Bell-Men, when I was trying to finish it before NaNo, and now I'm having to rewrite the last third of that book. I'd rather do a good job the first time.
Besides, I think I can finish tomorrow.
Reasonable endings have been tricky for me lately : P
ReplyDeleteWell, there's a lot to be said for an unreasonable ending too. :)
ReplyDeleteHooray for read-throughs and revelations!
ReplyDeleteI think you would have to try really hard to write a bad story. I don't think you have it in you.
ReplyDeleteAaron--I dunno about the hooray right now. I have too much I want to be working on besides this at the moment. But later, yes, I'll shout hooray. :)
ReplyDeleteJamie--You have obviously never read the first half of White Rose that I wrote last year. That was a very bad story indeed.
Good times.
ReplyDeleteAnd I finished the nano book today at 40,000 words, woohoo! Now I can go back to Bell-Men.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that you are finishing early boggles my mind.
ReplyDeleteI still have several thousand words to go, I'm just not writing them on the original document. I feel obscurely that I'm cheating.
ReplyDeleteEver notice how writing fast brings out the hidden bipolar in each of us?
ReplyDeleteMinute One: It's awful
then
Minute Two: Hey, This isn't half bad.
It's all perspective. And I can't believe you're near done -- there's like a week left!
Sometimes I can believe a story is simultaneously junk and wonderful. It's a wonder writers' heads don't explode all the time.
ReplyDeleteThere's a week left in nano, sure, but I have family in so I'm not going to be getting much writing done this week, I'm afraid.
You've finished! Woo Hoo! Well done.
ReplyDeleteIt's terrible, but it's done. :)
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