For the first time, I finished 50,000 for NanoWrimo early – on November 25th. It started as a short story meant to get me in the mood of writing and just kept leading me further into the story.
I finished the main story on the 25th, but I’ve carried on writing – several short stories and a plan for a different major project. I’m up to 58,547 words at the moment, not including this blog, and still going.
There’s been a lot of discussion in one of my writers’ groups recently about how useful and inspiring Nano is these days. For me, it’s been a private commitment to write a substantial project, one that has got me venturing into types of writing that I wouldn’t otherwise have thought I was capable of. It’s been worthwhile. My main writers’ group is now picking up where Nano left off, pushing me to knock the 2020 Nano project into shape and to keep writing new stories.
Julia Chalkley 