I've just finished my first ever attempt at a novel. Which means a lot to me: I've been trying to write one for about half my life now, and I had my suspicions at times that I would always sabotage my efforts, as a lot of my projects have fallen by the wayside over the years.
I don't care that it's rubbish at the moment, that it's got great gaping plot holes, that the characterisation needs tons of work, that it needs to be made good, then better, then great, that it will need about a zillion edits... All I care about is that it is DONE!
And having taken well over a decade to write a first draft, I now have a mad urge to throw myself headlong into NaNoWriMo for the first time ever, to attempt the second novel (while the dust settles on the first one, before I go back to it with a fresh perspective). I've been burning to write the second one for quite a while now, but I was thoroughly disciplined and wouldn't let myself so much as outline it until the first attempt existed in its entirety.
I don't quite know what to do with myself right now though...
I don't care that it's rubbish at the moment, that it's got great gaping plot holes, that the characterisation needs tons of work, that it needs to be made good, then better, then great, that it will need about a zillion edits... All I care about is that it is DONE!
And having taken well over a decade to write a first draft, I now have a mad urge to throw myself headlong into NaNoWriMo for the first time ever, to attempt the second novel (while the dust settles on the first one, before I go back to it with a fresh perspective). I've been burning to write the second one for quite a while now, but I was thoroughly disciplined and wouldn't let myself so much as outline it until the first attempt existed in its entirety.
I don't quite know what to do with myself right now though...
Congratulations!