National Novel Writing Month

I have managed to write 50,000 words for National Novel Writing Month. I decided to do this two weeks into the project, and I finished in a little over a week. My wrists hurt. I am glad I'm nearly finished. I'll do some minor edits today, and bind it as a gift for a friend probably Wednesday night. It will be great to see it as a book.

I am mostly confident in my writing - it isn't perfect, and I wouldn't submit it as it is for publication, but there is a nice story in there.

I know I probably drove some people crazy because this is all I have been talking and thinking about, I apologize for being so single minded, but this was really an important task for me. I had to prove to myself that I could do it.

Thanks for your patience, and I won't mention it again unless it is mentioned to me.

Thanks for the support, too.

I hate to bore people with my obsessions, and I suppose I did a little. I'm feeling kind of discouraged by some of the nonreactions I got.

Is that self centered?

Maybe it is a little bit, but when my friends decide to do something like this, I am as excited as they are while they are doing it and especially when they complete it. I certainly wouldn't ignore them when they were excited. But eh. Such is life, no?

To all of my friends I really do thank you - this has been a learning experience for me.