Holy crap I wrote a novel · 9:14pm Feb 21st, 2017
It's 70,000 words, which is novel length by any reasonable measure*. It's a a long, fictional narrative which describes intimate human equine experiences. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end. And it's finished!
Just look at that glorious, beautiful, green "Complete" badge at the bottom of the chapter list! "Freedom!" it proclaims. (And then I remember I have another unfinished story ...)
It's taken me a year and a half to get to this point (NaNoWriMo is clearly not for me). And I don't think I'm going to start a project as large as that again -- compared to writing oneshots, there's not much gratification in slaving over a chapter for a month and then, upon publishing it, reap just a handful of upvotes and three comments trickling in over the next week. But I'm glad I stuck it out anyway, rather than leaving it dangling, unfinished.
I'm toying with the idea of a series of blog posts with commentary on each of the chapters, because I love talking about my own work and have had to restrain myself hitherto, so as not to spoil the rest. If I do, it will be without any sort of guarantee of finishing that. Watch this space. (Edit: Here's Part 1).
Now to wait for all those upvotes they say people will withhold until a story is complete ...
*: With the exception of the Completed Story Compendium group, which declares anything below 90,000 words to be a mere novella. And anything over 100,000 to be an "epic". Somehow they don't have a lot of "novels" in their folders ....
Congratulations!
Yep, TRS has been sitting in my Read Later folder for awhile... And this is the best reason I\m going to get to get started, so... see you in some 70k words.