I didn’t plan on participating in NaNo at the start of the month, but decided to give it a try since a crap load of people from a local writer group were doing it and seemed to be enjoying the experience. Weeks passed by and, last night, I validated my word count and became a “winner” (I guess the NaNo people sat around one day and decided that “finisher” sounded too dirty).
Coincidentally, I’d been seriously brainstorming a new novel in October so I decided to use NaNo to push myself and churn out 50,000 words for that project. The quality is pretty damn iffy, and the plotting is bumpy as hell, but I think it will serve as a good “zero draft” which I can springboard off of to create a proper first draft.
My writing this month definitely helped to flesh out character backgrounds and personalities, and create some semblance of a plot that I can work with. I look forward to the additions and revisions to come as I try to bring the quality up to a level that doesn’t make me want to punch you in the ass.
A.D. Martin 
Congrats!!
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Congrats! First (zero?) drafts can be edited. Empty pages cannot. Very cool you finished!
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Thanks. Haha. I thought “zero draft” was a wonky term at first, too, but people kept using it in this writing group I go to and I picked it up.
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I think it’s perfect. I’d call my extensive outline a zero draft. It’s too long for an outline but not padded out enough for a first draft.
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Wooohooo! Well done. You did it!
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Congratulations!
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Congrats! I’ve been so cautious (“scared” is more like it) of writing my draft, I didn’t even reached 10K, so I decided not to join after the workshop hahaha.
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congrats 🙂
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Congratulations!
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Awesome! I got 10,000 word then I heard back from an editor who wanted massive rewrites with suggestions and… Well, I kind of let nano go.
Congrats to you! Nano is quite an accomplishment!
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** fist bump** … 😀
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well done, you should be proud
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One of my friends was in on it too but I decided to keep to my own pace. Good for you though. Getting anything down is a great start.
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Well done!! I couldn’t even accomplish the blogging every day so I’m impressed.
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Well done. I’ve entered it twice and completed the word count, but sadly have not looked at the words since due to life getting in the way! Still have them though, and hope to edit and complete soon. New Year resolution perhaps.
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