Red Room Where the Writers Are

Congratulations to everyone who didn't win, but participated in this year's NaNoWriMo challenge!!  You all deserve a nice shoulder rub, I'll take a moment while you get one...  And why do I congratulate you?  Because NaNoWriMo forces so many of us to step outside of our comfort zones and do something incredibly scary -- write a novel.  So, for that I commend you, even if you didn't reach 50K.  

We got one final plug in our area for NaNoWriMo in the Frederick News-Post.  To be quite honest, I was quite disappointed in this article.  It didn't have the pizazz that the other articles had, and I was horribly annoyed that I was misquoted in the article all over the place!  Yes, some of the things that I'm quoted to say I alluded to, but they weren't actual full quotations.  I got the feeling that the article was done off-the-cuff and without a lot of feeling.  I'm sorry it was the parting farewell to our adventure.

A few of my Twitter friends have been interested in seeing the whole 2008 NaNovel in it's entirety.  To all of you who are waiting with bated breath, I'm afraid I will not be posting the novel to this blog this year.  Last year I posted everything except the end; all in all, it was a fairly decent rough draft.  This year... not so much.  I have to admit that at 50K my momentum dropped drastically and the manuscript is anything but complete.  It actually took my cast of characters somewhere around 40K to really get going.  Ugh.  So, they still have quite a ways to go, and I have quite a bit of research to make the story come full circle.  I will complete it (some day), and if you're interested and really want to see it's completed rough state, DM me on Twitter, shoot me a message on Facebook, or just leave a comment here with your email address and I'll try to keep a running list of who all I'm supposed to send copies to when it's done.  One caveat, I will probably withhold some portion so that should it ever go to print the small cult following that I may have gained will be momentous sales!  Yes, I know, I'm evil.