It's Over

Apologies that I didn't update daily. But I thought it very important to come here and let you all know some very exciting news.

At approx. 7.30PM GMT on Saturday 27th November, I popped open the Champagne after completing the NaNoWriMo Challenge.

Honestly, it felt good, but not as good as I had expected. This is probably because I still have a way to go for the Novel to be classed as finished. I reckon there are another 50 thousand or so words left to be written. But it did feel good enough to celebrate.

I can get back to normal, you will hear of articles I am writing for the Writers Bureau Course. You will read a [fiction] Friday story, not based on the NaNovel. My house will not make people call out the police because they think somebody has died. Bills will be paid - on time. My son's homework won't be rushed the night before it is due, because I am not too busy trying to hit the target, after spending the time he was at school procrastinating.

So I am not so much celebrating a finished novel, but more a return to reality. During the first two weeks of NaNo I was thinking 'this is brill! I will write all future novels like this.'

Now I am thinking 'What? You want me to do it again next year? Seriously?'

We have a year to find out. Hopefully, by then I will be in heated debate with several agents and on my way to making my millions..............

As Martin Luther King said 'I Have A Dream'. It may be silly, probably impossible to achieve. But I am enjoying the journey of following it.

I x