Scott.Buffington.me

I crossed the finish line early, and I have more to write, but I am mostly at the end of my story. NaNoWriMo contrary to how this might appear was a huge challenge for me. Having something to base my story on and carry it along in a time line was a help. What I did not expect was how much of a story I would have to add to the story to reach my goal of 50,000 words.

All of this being said, I plan to do a little more writing through the end of the month and I will have to wait until the finish of the 2004 Brutal Deluxe season to complete the story. After that, I am unsure what I will do. Originally I planned to someday post the novel and I think I may still do that but I have a lot of editing to do and I have to attempt to tie up the lose ends and improve some pieces. However I have to tell you, do not get any misconceptions, this novel is so bad I actually feel more like hiding it. I began to lose motivation as I neared the 50,000 word mark, realizing just how bad the novel really is. Correction, I realized the novel was bad before 20,000 words, but I continued anyway, I had a goal, which was finishing.

I would describe my novel as satire, meets the sports page with a mystery thrown in. This was my first ever attempt at writing a story of this length and I can say that I did it, I wrote a novel, a very bad novel but I did it. I may even use CafePress.com to self publish the novel. Not hoping to sell, just so that I can get a copy for myself in print to put on my bookshelf. How cool would that be? Plus, designing the cover will be a whole lot more fun than writing the novel in one month was. If I do get the novel cleaned up enough to self publish, I will also publish the story on the web too, just incase anyone is curious. I would estimate that it will take me several months to edit the lump of words into something that I would not be entirely embarrassed to have someone read.

All of this being said, I do think I will do NaNoWriMo again next year. I want to write something different, hopefully something better. Brutal Deluxe, Season Tickets is a combination of newspaper clippings noting the goings on around the league. This changed as the story progressed to include a mystery in the middle. I realized I was running short on words and also that I needed to reach my goal before the Brutal Deluxe season ended. So, I murdered somebody, well I did not, but someone in my story did. This move away from the newspaper like chapters toward writing about the interaction of characters made me not like my novel very much. I figure I probably broke just about every rule to story writing that one could break. I may have even invented a few. Give me a break, I wrote the damn thing in a month. Before next year I will research some general rules (grammar included) and hopefully produce a better product.