Thirty days and thirty nights of grabbing whatever moments I could to put down as many words as I could... and actually, even that was only twenty-five days and nights.
Yes November was National Novel Writing Month, and I, like thousands of others, stepped up to the challenge of writing a novel of 50,000 words or more within that period.
And, I am so pleased to say I did it. Yes, on the November 25th I submitted my word count for official verification, having penned my final scene and, my story weighed in on a respectable 50,062 words, making me, officially, a winner of NaNoWriMo 2012.
The story I wrote, Soul Reflection, was the second in my planned paranormal romance series, Soul Takers. The concept and plot had been with me for over a year while I perfected and edited Soul Reunion (the first one). Of course such rushed writing left lots of room for error and the final product is still along way off.
However, what I have managed to achieve is the laying of the bare bones of the complete story, i.e. the structure and the content. But, as is the way I write, it now needs me to go back in and add the style. So, after completing the first draft and verifying my word count I went straight back in to embellish the story. In only five or six chapters I have already increased the word count by some three thousand. I have no doubt the final word count will be somewhere around seventy thousand. But for now, I have achieved my objective of launching myself soundly into the second novel in my series.
Go me!
