I did it. I Wrote Hard All Month!
31 days. 51,000 words. One 40,000 word novel completed.
But… it was not as simple as all that. It started out well. I was flying!
And then my laptop decided it didn’t like me and deleted roughly 10,000 words. I had to essentially start over.
I was… very dejected. And rewriting what I had already written was a lot harder than I first expected. Had I already written this? Was that the previous version, or had I written it in this version? What disappeared between versions?
It took me… a while to catch up to where I’d been. But yes, eventually, I got there. In fact, I’m halfway done revising that novel already. (Which is good… this is the first novel I’m coauthoring, and my next step is to get it to the other author so she can work on her parts!)
It was good. It’s been a while since I drove hard like that, and it felt… right. It felt right to have a hard deadline again. So good, I’m going to attempt to write another novel right away.
Right after I revise this novel. And the other one I just got back from my editor.
So… maybe not writing one in the month of November, but within thirty days. How about that?
Jonathon Mast: Author 