Before NaNoWriMo, the most I'd ever written on one novel was about 10,000 words before I stopped, believing I had started from the wrong perspective. I haven't gone back to it in two years. Now I have a complete story. Well, a poorly written first draft of a story. I don't know that I'll do anything more with it, and I'm perfectly fine with that. However, if people read this and leave positive comments, then I would like to edit and revise and revise and revise and revise...and then try to send it out for publication.
I like my characters and I liked the story. It started out as a character sketch and a scene (see postings from late October), and I had fun because I didn't have to worry about word choice and all those things a writer worries about when "crafting" a story. I had fun because I let the characters go where they wanted. There was only one scene where I felt that I had to curb what they wanted because it was a bit too scandalous, I felt. Other than that, I wrote what the characters said even if I was cringing while I was typing or telling them to stop talking because they were boring. Overall it was a lot of fun and I look forward to taking up the challenge again next year.
Oh, and one note for those of you wanting to read my story and leave comments. I've been trying to think of a nice way to say this, but I haven't thought of one yet. Constructive comments are great, positive or negative. What is completely useless is to hear that a part of my story sounds like this one TV show/movie/book/video game/comic book. I don't know of any writer who likes to hear that, so please keep those comments to yourself. I've already had the same thoughts about certain scenes. What would be useful is a comment like this is awful because of this that and the other OR I liked this one part OR this seemed kind of like an extended character sketch and I would like the story if it were told from another perspective. (By the way, that last example is pretty much how I feel.)
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