153,551 Words, Eight Months, and Five Days Later...

... I've finished my very first novel. A bit late for the end of last year's National Novel Writing Month, I know, but hey, I did write 75,000 words in those first 30 days. It just took me a bit longer to write the other 75,000 or so.

Thanks to the friends and family who cheered me on from the start; to those who picked up the story midway through, and encouraged me to keep at it, and to the handful of folks I've never even met who left kind comments on the chapters in progress. If even one person reads and enjoys this rambling, frequently incoherent wreck of a quasi-narrative (which needs so much rewriting, and will hopefully eventually get it), then it's all been worth it.

If you're just discovering it, or have been waiting patiently until it's done, you can start from the first chapter. And watch this space in late October for a link to my next NaNoWriMo novelblog. Yes, God help me, I'm doing this again. Maybe this time around, I can actually finish in a month. Or two. Three at the very most...