In just under the line...

[kitchen_kink]

Time on deck: 11:43 p.m. EST.

Words written: 50,049.

Number of those words written today: 8,907

Percentage of those words likely to be scrapped in revisions: 98%

Amount of actual novel really finished: about 75%

Feelings at this moment: rather anticlimactic

I had a lot of time to work on a novel, and I've completed one more than twice as long as this, so the sheer idea of creating 50,000 words in a month wasn't such a huge whoop. What was more important to me was to begin a habit of writing daily, to learn how to produce on command instead of only when inspired to, and to create something that I felt could be massaged into an actual, viable piece of work. And the result is that I have the bones of something that looks frighteningly like a fantasy novel.

And hey, check out my icon.

Now everybody go and congratulate anyone else you know who has managed to do this while also working a full time job.

Hell, congratulate anyone who even tried to do this with a full time job. (Hi, imlad!)

Comments

[greendalek.livejournal.com]

So...can we read said masterwork?

[gothtique.livejournal.com]

Congrats... I didn't know you were doing it too!
Cool!
Yeah... mine is gonna need a lot of editing and rewriting too... but I DID IT!
W00T

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Congratulations to you, too!

-frog with a full-time job

Didn't see this post earlier.

[sunstealer.livejournal.com]

Very, very impressive. Full time job or no, finishing that is hoot-worthy.
Hoot!
(brought to you by "Wordsy, the Literate Owl")

I tried. I failed. I have 2 jobs and put in about 65 hours a week but it still pissed me off to fail.