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[iamnight.livejournal.com]

So, I did it. After writing a 78,000-word memoir when a friend challenged me on November 3rd, concluding on the 19th, I was so jazzed I decided to just sit down and write a fiction novel. That I did, starting on November 23rd and finishing late last night.

I found it all very gratifying last night, but now I'm too dead tired to feel much. I still have to teach a one-hour adult class tonight, and it's as much a mystery to me as it probably is to you how I'm going to teach a class while not actually awake to do so.

But yay. I did it. 78,000 words on the first, 67,000 in the second, within the span of four weeks. It's like Douglas Adams wrote about flying - you just have to do it before you really know what you're doing, and pretend you're doing something else all the while...

Congrats, everyone, and good luck those who are pulling the last-minute run!

- d

p.s. How's everyone approaching editing? How long - if at all - are you planning on waiting?

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[bloomingflax.livejournal.com]

Wow. Just too much wow for words. That's an amazing amount of words. Congratulations on two incredible feats!