ONE FOR THE RECORD BOOKS?

My 31 days were up on Tuesday, at which point I think I was somewhere around 85,000 words. I wrote a summary ending of the story in order to fulfill the Nano requirements. I will “flesh out” my ending at a later date, add details. In the meantime, I fully consider my Nano excperience has been a success.

The trouble is, I estimate I need another month writing approximately 3,000 words a day (my average thus far) in order to complete my story. But I am not tired yet, so I am going to do it. I’m wondering when the fatigue might set in, if ever.

I am also wondering if I might be one for the record books. In Chris Baty’s chapter about your 4th week, there is mention that only about a half dozen or so people have ever gone through to 50,000 words in one month in LONGHAND. Okay. So I’ve been writing in longhand, and I hit 50,000 words around day 22, and now I’m up to about 89,000. Does that make me one for the record books?

One of my main tenants about life is that no matter what, there is always somebody better off than you, and someone worse off than you. There is someone who does more, and someone who does less. Mathematically it makes sense that only one can be the best, and only one can be the worst, so everyone else by default has to be somewhere in the middle.

Only if I’m understanding what I read correctly, I have far surpassed anything anyone has ever done in Nano before. The one hitch is that it isn’t the official Nano month, so what I did is not being documented by Nano. I wonder if I will repeat this performance when I do my next novel in November. No idea yet what it might be about. Still have too much work to do on the current story.

Anyway, the point of all this is that I am feeling pretty good, pretty accomplished. I really believe that God has given me a gift, and that at long last the time has come to put it to good use. I wasted a lot of years. Nothing that can be done about that now. But from this point on, by the grace of God, I will write.