Camp Nano and Mouse

Mouse in the sun after running himself silly so it's not a wall-o-text post:



I've almost reached my Camp Nano goal! I can't really express how excited I am by this. I have never finished a first draft before. Yes, it's crap rough but I figure I'll give it a week to simmer and then do a first edit. My goal is to do a full edit during July's camp. Then I can work on a sequel in November.

Anyway, my goal was 40k, which I figured would be a good start to the 60 or 70k I want to have eventually. I'm just 3k short, which I hope to finish up today. If I can stay off the internet.

Winner winner chicken dinner!

I did it! I wrote 40k words! The first draft still isn't done, but now I'm in the habit of writing and I plan to keep going until it's done. I only had to push myself to write a couple of times, and each time when I got started I was able to keep going for longer than I thought. Except once, where I ground out ~800 words and called it a night. LOL

Anyway, it feels good to be a