I succeeded in my goal and wrote 
50,189 words in one month, completing my first novel, The End of Man. (That's 189 bonus words!)
When I started out I told John, "I'm doing a SciFi story.... some might call it... a SciFi epic." I'm not sure if it quite hits the mark of epic, but I'm happy with my story.
Only around 15% of
participants complete the task each year, and this year I was the only one of my writing buddies to hit the mark. I hope that all of them try again next year! Updating my wordcount so they could see it really kept me going. (Not that I know that they ever checked...)
As far as writing contests go, I'm looking forward to next April when the same group is running Script Frenzy!, a similar contest to write a 100 page play or screenplay in a month.
w00t! Awesome job. :-)
Posted by: Aaron Welsher | December 02, 2007 at 08:07 AM
Congratulations, James! Not only did you complete NaNoWriMo, but you ended up with a great story to boot. Your novel makes me question some of the NaNoWriMo gospel about writing a novel in a month being about "exuberant mediocrity" or.... whatever Baty called it. Your book was a fun read. A very impressive work when you consider you did it in a month!
I'm hoping you do some minor editing and get this up on LuLu... and that I get to read a sequel next year.
Posted by: johnahlschwede | December 03, 2007 at 12:41 PM