Success

This is going to be a relatively short blog post, just as a fair warning.

I said on the last day of October that during November I would be participating in the madness known as National Novel Writing Month. I've talked about it numerous times throughout the month, and I've talked about how I've been struggling with it and spent the entire month behind on my world goals. And with word goals more than three times as difficult as the ones I've set myself for this blog, that's kind of understandable.

But I did it. In the month of November, I wrote a novel fifty thousand words long. Alongside that, I managed to continue writing for the blog every single day, at five hundred words a pop, even if those posts weren't as much fiction as I have been doing otherwise. Putting those together, in the month of November I wrote a total of roughly sixty five thousand words. Regardless of who you are or what you might think about writing, it's hard to deny how much of an accomplishment that is.

I'm screaming so hard in my head right now.

But good lord, was it exhausting. Especially because I fell so heavily behind at the beginning. That resulted in me spending the last week and a half more or less writing two thousand to three thousand words a day, and that was just for the novel. It's been mentally exhausting.

And the novel's not even done. Not even close. I'm barely getting into the middle of the story. It hit a nice high point for the end of the fifty thousand, but there is far more story to tell. I feel like I've barely scratched the surface. And as it stands, the quality is horrid.

I plan on not stopping. I won't continue the breakneck pace that I've been maintaining the past few days (at least, I don't plan on it), but I want to write at least a little bit of the novel everyday as I continue forth. And I don't plan on stopping the blog because of it.

Hopefully the quality of the blog will come back up as I relax a little with the book. It won't be done any time soon, but you'll probably hear about it from time to time. Here's hoping someday you'll get to read it.