Exhausted but Relieved

And just like that, NaNoWriMo was over. November was grueling. There were days when I didn’t meet my goals, but I made up the word count each time. Toward the end, I lost all motivation, felt no inspiration, and was sure the quality of my writing was abomination. Having the deadline looming at the end of the month was the one thing that kept me going. Somehow I pushed through, and I’m happy to say that I finished the first draft of my sequel today with a whole day to spare! Now that I know it can be done, the pressure is on to write book three in one month as well… Ugh.

After kicking NaNoWriMo’s butt, I’m looking forward to taking a couple weeks to rest and edit some other projects before I start revising this novel. And let me tell you, it is going to need EXTENSIVE editing. 

The above photo is from The Return of the King, produced by New Line Cinema.