Reflections on the National Novel Writing Month.

On the 4th November, I published a post called The book! In the beginning. That post opened thus:

Well I’m underway!

Last Thursday, I announced that I had decided to participate in National Novel Writing Month.  Or NaNoWriMo as it is more familiarly known.

It’s clear that to achieve the goal of 50,000 words by the end of November, it must be all about writing; writing flat out.  Any distraction from writing will make it impossible to maintain the average of 1,670 words a day for 31 days!

So just warning you that as I publish each chunk of the book here on Learning from Dogs don’t expect anything like a polished result.  Given the miracle of actually completing the 50,000 words then December will be the time to edit, refine and polish.

Mind you, any feedback good, bad or indifferent would be fabulous to have from you.  OK, enough said, on with the show!

Well, unbelievably, I completed the initial draft of 55,976 words and in thirty minutes the last 718 words of that draft book will be published on Learning from Dogs.

Come the start of January comes the start of the editing and refining period, again ably assisted and supported by NaNoWriMo.

The wonderful support that so many readers and friends have shown me has been magnificent: thank you.  More than one person has encouraged me to both produce the final version and to self-publish.  Let’s see how things turn out.