A couple of weeks ago I did a NaNoWriMo 2015 mid-point update.
And I know you’ve all been losing sleep wondering if I managed to stick to my target to write an average of 1,000 words a day in November. Haven’t you? 😉
The good news is… *insert drumroll*
I did it! As you can see from my stats here below, I reached my goal by the skin of my teeth, but I did it.
I wrote even though there were days when I was tired and my brain wasn’t cooperating. As a result I am up to just under 80,000 words on the first draft of my second novel.
I’m now going to shift my focus to some further edits to book 1 (Art and Soul). I want to get it as perfect as I can in December and then send it to an editor in the New Year (I have a lot of commas to move and/or delete).
There you have it. I may not have “won” NaNoWriMo 2015 in the sense of writing 50,000 words in a month. But I achieved my own goal and didn’t quit, so I’m pretty pleased with myself (*smug face* and excuse to use the following image)…
Congratulations to everyone who “won” this November and to those who wrote anything at all. Writing isn’t as easy as it looks and life can conspire to keep you away from it. We should all be pleased with ourselves for getting any words down!
How did you NaNoWriMo go? Let me know!
Art and Soul 
congratulations with reaching your goal! I ended up quitting about halfway through so I was disappointed with myself on that. Good for you for sticking with it and reaching your goal! Hats off to you! 🙂
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Thank you 🙂 It was a pretty close-run thing, as you can see. I have to give credit to chocolate, without which I couldn’t have done it!
You shouldn’t be disappointed with yourself. You gave it a try and wrote something, which is more than a lot of people will ever do. And there’s only 6 months until JuNoWriMo… 😉
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You absolutely need chocolate when writing its a must have! it helps save your sanity!
Eh I’m mostly disappointed about quitting I don’t like to quit but it got a point where it wasn’t fun for me I was no longer writing for fun and I feel like my quality really suffered.
I totally forgot about Camp NaNo 🙂 that should be fun!
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Congrats of your NaNo success! 😃
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Congrats on reaching your goal! The victory in NaNoWriMo is finding the motivation to write every day and to fearlessly pursue our passion of writing! Good luck with edits and much success with it in the new year 🙂
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Thank you so much! I have been rewarding myself with copious amounts of chocolate brownie. May need to write while on a treadmill in the new year! 🙂
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Well done Claire, great stuff ☺☺
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Thank you. Just need to keep going now (powered by chocolate, of course!) 🙂
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Of course, keep it up. Youve gone way over the 50k count so youre totally a winner in my book ☺
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Ah it seems as though a lot of us are doing that edit and send off thing in December 🙂
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I imagine there’s a surge in submissions a few times in the year. I wouldn’t be surprised if just before and just after Christmas are two of them 🙂
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Congrats! I bet it feels amazing to meet your goals, almost better than that chocolate 😉
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Thank you! And yes, *almost* better than chocolate 😉
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Congratulations! And, like you, I feel that ‘winning’ NaNo is meeting your own personal goal, however low or high it may be, even that goal is something as ‘simple’ as “I want to give this a try”.
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Thank you! Exactly! For some people, 50,000 words just isn’t realistic for a whole manner of reasons. I think it’s a good thing if it encourages anyone to give writing a try 🙂
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Sounds like you did very well Claire!!! congrats
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Thank you! I was very pleased I stuck to my guns 🙂
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that would be so hard to do!! Good for you
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Yay, congratulations, Claire! Good luck with your revisions. 😉
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Thank you! I’m hoping inspiration strikes to help me fix a couple of the trickier bits 🙂
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Congratulations! I finished my NaNoWriMo novel too, but I stopped at around 50,000 words. I hope your revisions go well 🙂
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Thanks. It’s great that you finished your project too.
I’ve taken the last 2 days “off” from worrying about writing and I’m amazed at all the other things I’ve got done! 🙂
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