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Yup - I’m a winner!

Naturally, everyone who even writes even a few words can be considered a winner. Then again, the goal was to reach 50,000 and I can now proudly tell you that I did! Afterimage clocked in at a proud 50,009 words and I can now consider myself an author!

Well… not quite an author. What I have created - and what I am very proud of - is a very sketchy first draft of what will eventually become a book. One day. Sometime in the future.

During November, I learned a couple of things about myself. First off, I’m a slacker and I love procrastinating. If I can push my writing till tomorrow, odds are I’ll do it. This is not a very good thing. Second, I write extremely nonsensically, going from thought to thought without thinking much about the places inbetween those thoughts. This leads to a very disjointed and confused narrative where plot points are introduced and then dropped, only to resurface for no reason when I remember them.

I’m not saying I should plan my books better, because I don’t think that’s the answer either. I, myself, love to feel the story grow as I write it. If anything, I think Afterimage might have been just a tad overplanned; I knew where I was going with it, and that sort of ruined the surprise for me. It caused the first draft to feel like me rushing towards a conclusion without really focusing on the oh-so-important middle bits.

For those who have been asking me: No, I will not be making this draft available to you. The only one who will read it is my fiance, and then, after rewriting it once or twice, I might let someone else look at it. Right now, it’s just way too unfinished.

Anyway! On to new stuff!