Congratulations on finishing!
.-= Charlotte Rains Dixon´s last blog ..The Writing Life: Walking the Labyrinth =-.

One chapter at a time!
.-= tekchic´s last blog ..How Big Are Your Dreams? =-.

And try to to go through both the post-novel and retail post-holiday depressions at the same time!

Nano is a monster and it is so fabulous to read as, one by one, participants conquer the beast. Don’t forget, in the moment between those 50,000 words and the next to congratulate and reward yourself for having done so well.

There is something sinister about the “nearly the end” of such a lengthy project. Right now, I feel like I’m inside a bubble, pushing at invisible walls that won’t burst. Just over 60,000 words I have less than 20,000 to reach “The End”. It’s The Wall. We stand across from it, gazing up at the sheer wonder of our ideas and suddenly realize that we’re only human. We discover that there is a gaping hole between our original idea and what we have written so far. The itch to start editing kicks in and we wonder if it really would make sense to fix the beginning BEFORE we write that last 25% After all, if the rest is better, we’ll write an even better ending, who knows what tweaks our edit will make that will alter the outcome.

*shudders* It is too easy to talk myself out of writing. But I remind myself that I am the ONLY person who can write this book. It may never appear on the page the way it does within me but it would never appear within anyone else the way it does to me either. The story, these characters, deserves to be told, even if imperfectly, because it would be heartbreaking to think I was the only one who ever had the opportunity to experience the wonder.

And so, we push on, word by word.

Congratulations on pushing through your wall. Enjoy the moment, and then write the next word.
.-= Rebecca Laffar-Smith´s last blog ..Fueling Your Body, Filling Your Page =-.