Finishing

“Finishing a book is bittersweet. You spend days getting to know the characters. Learning their nuances, their faults, their loves, their lives. They become your friends, acquaintances, enemies. And after the story ends, you miss them. You look for them in your own life, wonder where they’ve gone, you forget that they aren’t real. You fall in love with the hero and dream of him at night. The strange girl becomes your best friend. Their heartaches become your heartaches. You laugh when they laugh. And cry when they die. Eventually you realise they aren’t a part of your world, you were just briefly visiting theirs.” ~Whimsical Enlightenment

Yes, it's a long quote, but I finished NaNoWriMo. That kind of achievement deserves a long quote.

50,000 words in 30 days. I finished last night at 9:54 PM after writing 5,755 words. The book is horrible. It's rushed, cluttered, hasty, and all my characters sound exactly the same in most of the parts. But you know what? I finished. I can go back and rewrite it if I desire. The journey in a novel is really, truly, yours. A reader will experience, but they didn't write it. They didn't know that there was a scene between Chapter 4 and Chapter 5, but you removed it because your FMC refused to do it right. Or you changed the tense in an entire novel because it didn't flow right here. There's no telling what a novel will bring you.

Finishing one is one of the most amazing experiences I've ever had.

Kirah