Completing the NaNo Novel and other crappy first drafts

I didn't announce it on here as it happened, but around this time last month I completed my first NaNoWriMo with 50,508 words.   Yay!

A few months ago I finally finished the shitty first draft of my first novel.   It only took um, about six or seven years give or take.  But at least now it is done: ready for improvement, tweaking, changing completely.  The most amazing thing about this particular journey is that for around seven years I have stuck to the one thing!

So I have not one but two novels to rewrite, edit and polish!

One of the prizes for winning NaNoWriMo is 5 proof copies  of your novel so my goal now is to have something finished so I can take advantage of the offer.

Of course being the Virgo I am this is going to to take blood, sweat, tears and loads of other cliches to get it done so that it is 'perfect'.

Here goes....

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This year will be my first NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) in which the object is to write a shitty first draft of 50,000 words in 30 days.  I say 'shitty first draft' (aren't they all?) because the focus is on quantity not quality and editing as you go only wastes valuable time as well as words.

My main reason for participating is to get into the habit of writing a lot in a short space of time (considering my first novel's first draft took seven years of me fart-arsing around with it so I want to do this one in a more reasonable time frame).

So the next question is, what will I write?   I've got two more stories worked out in my head, vaguely plotted and characterised.  One is a fantasy and the other a horror.    I'm thinking of going with the fantasy story, mainly because it's the most worked out as far as characters are concerned, and also for the simple reason that horror writing for me can't be done at night :-)  I'm a wuss. 

Anyway, I've committed myself now.   And really looking forward to it!