And so it ends, not with a bang, but with a whimper

[slipjig3]

That squishing sound you hear is me sticking a fork in my NaNoWriMo project. Word count as of right now: 33,755. I may do a little more on it later today, but it's pretty obvious that I won't be making the final goal this year. *sigh* I was well ahead of the game for quite a while, then a day behind, then a day and a half behind, and then I went out of town over Thanksgiving, and that was effectively the end of that.

I'm trying to look at the good of it all. I did manage to cross the 2/3 mark, 115 double-spaced pages, which is almost 3 times better than my to-date best and loads more than I've ever written of anything. The story wouldn't have been done at 50,000 words, anyway. And I'm still psyched about the book in general, still know some of what's going to come, still have some scenes mapped out in my head that just need a road built to their front doors, so to speak. But I have to say that I'm more than a little disappointed and sad about the whole thing. I had the highest of hopes, and every expectation that I'd make it, and now I feel like I've let a bunch of people down, starting with myself.

But as I said, I'm not putting the book away. If I could ask a favor from y'all, if you happen to think of it, ask me how The Noise of Endless Wars is coming along when you talk to me. Keep kicking me in the heinie about this. Do not let me slack off like I did the last time around. I don't want this to end up in the Unfinished Projects graveyard.

*sigh*

Comments

[sionainn.livejournal.com]

Give yourself a bit more credit here... you have gotten farther along in this project than any other AND you have the story already written inside your head. Now you just have to beat the words into submission and get them on the page.

Don't stop because NaNo is over... write your book!


(So, how's the novel coming? ;-)

[oneagain.livejournal.com]

What they said:)

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Thank ye!

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Well, some of the story written, anyway. I've got some scenes that I know are going to happen; I just need to figure out how to get there. (And I'm not willing to jump ahead then backtrack, because that was part of what killed the last prject.) Ah, well, we'll see what happens.