Congratulations. Finishing a first novel is the hardest thing a writer will ever have to do, and you're past it. On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 17:39, Johne Cook wrote: > http://phywriter.com/archives/2004/11/30/winner-nanowrimo-2004/ > Day 30: 2730 / 2088, 52,164 / 50,000 > > In which the weary writer discovers the he is now "a novelist", and > enjoys a brew with the dogs while watching falling snow, your basic > scene of domestic bliss. Oh, yeah, the wife's proud, too. 8) > > > It's official, I've "won" the National Novel Writing Month competition > for 2004 with an "official" wordcount of 52,164 words as of this > afternoon. > > The thing is, I didn't upload the final story to my FTP server to > share before I left work, and I'm actually lacking the final third of > the final chapter. It's a corker. I can't wait to share it with you. I > won't share it with you until I can share the entire first draft, so > that means tomorrow, people. Probably tomorrow morning. > > So I'm probably going to clock in around 54,000 words by the time I > upload the full story tomorrow, but the goal was to hit 50,000 words > by midnight 11/30, and I've done that as of 7am this morning. > > I'll upload the full rough draft of _The Sky Pirate_ tomorrow morning > in .doc and .pdf format, and it will be an interesting ending to the > first novel, I promise. > > I'd like to take a couple moments and reflect on this past month, but > I'm going to save that for later. For now, I'm sitting here in my > house watching the snow fall (first time this season), with a cold > Corona in my hand and two warm puppies in my lap. I am content. As of > today, I am a Novelist. I'm sitting here and soaking in that > revelation. > > To quote the theme song from Firefly, > http://computercrowsnest.com/sfnews2/04_nov/review1104_9.shtml: > > Take my love, take my land > Take me where I cannot stand > I don't care, I'm still free > You can't take the sky from me > > Take me out, to the black > Tell 'em I ain't comin' back > Burn the land and boil the sea > You can't take the sky from me > > Have no place I can be > since I found Serenity > But you can't take the sky from me > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > johne cook > wisconsin, usa > johne.cook at gmail.com / jcook at apostate.com > http://www.phywriter.com > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . >