First Drafts

First Drafts.
For years, I have loved writing. But for years I have gotten stuck on this step. I always wanted to fix every little detail as I went along, but it would keep me from actually finishing. A couple years ago, I did finish a first draft and maybe one day I'll go back to it and finish it up. 
But yesterday, Saturday April 28th 2018, I finished another first draft. It is one of the things I am most proud of ever, if not the absolute most. 

It started last November with NaNoWriMo. I had this little kernel of an idea for a fantasy book, so I decided to give NaNoWriMo another try. My goal with NaNoWriMo is always just to get somewhere, not necessairly to win. 
But I won. 
I wrote 50,000 words in a month.
And the story wasn't over, so I kept going. It is a slow going process, but I kept adding on and on reaching for the end. 
In April, NaNoWriMo holds another event called Camp NaNoWriMo so I decided to join that too, hoping it would push me to finish my first draft. 
And I did. 
My goal had been 90,000 words and last night I finished my first draft with 93,383 words. 
Then I cried. 

This story has been building up in my head for so long and these characters have almost become real people in my mind and now it is all out there on paper. 

A first draft is far from perfect. But this time I didn't care so much about that. I just wrote. I let the words spill out without thinking if that's what someone would want to read. I just wrote what I wanted and decided to worry about it all later. Because there are some days where the words come out just perfect for the scene, and some days where they do not (the Nick Miller gif above). For the last six months though I didn't let myself think about it all too much; I wrote what I could to get me to move forward. 

And now that it all down on the page, I can edit. And it is going to be a lot of editing for me. But I am so excited to try.

Maybe nothing will ever come of this story. Maybe me and family will be the only people to ever read it. But I don't care. 
Because I am proud of what I have written and I am even more proud that I wrote it at all. 

To many more hours of writing and editing.

Word of the week: Satisfied.

xoxo

Spiryt 

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