If you don’t mind not having tomato sauce, do it, basil and/or pesto is super good on pizza. Just make sure you don’t put too much oil on your crust so it stays crispy.

New York is awesome!!! Are you going to do tourist-y stuff or see shows or are you just going to meet people?

Ok, you wanna try to write a steampunk mystery novel? Because as much as I’m thinking, I have no idea what crime/murder my characters should be investigating lol

Oh yea! We can trade. My story's super depressing. LOL! As for the murder....

I think it should be....

How about...

I have the exact same problem. It sucks!!!!

6 1/2 hours :)

My opinion: If you think your novel is finished, it is finished. You are the author after all, you get to decide where your story go. Personally, I think you won even if you didn’t get to 50 000 words. You wrote a novel; you’re awesome! :)

Thanks. Yea, I feel like I just can't force it anymore. I don't know what to say. I'm sure I will hit over 50k when I edit it but that's going to take some time.

andyouwriteforaliving replied to your post: I'm so disappointed in myself.

My advice is not to take CampNano as the final goal. Not all good stories have 50k words and 50k words are not necessarily a good story. You’ve written an entire novel, isn’t this motive enough to be proud of yourself?

Yea, I guess it's hard because that was the point right? I mean, not the point of writing but the point of the whole competition angle. I am proud that I wrote it just upset I couldn't quite get there. The long term goal is to get it published so that's definitely the final goal!

pauliporcupine replied to your post: I'm so disappointed in myself.

Linds, you’re not a cheat, and not a failure. YOU WROTE A FUCKING NOVEL! Focus on hitting the 50k mark. And then let it rest. You can edit and change stuff later. But don’t give up now. You deserve to win this.You already win this.

Thanks Pau. I won't hit 50k tonight but I will keep writing for a bit and go through the editing process that I was doing. At least I can keep going until midnight right?

fancybecks replied to your post: I'm so disappointed in myself.

if you feel your story is done then it’s done. so what if you didn’t hit the 50k? it’s not like you’re inferior to anyone or that you suck as a writer. If your story is done, it’s done. You’ve made it. It’s finished. :)

Thanks hun. I'm just disappointed. But yea, I guess I did finish.

fancybecks replied to your post: I'm so disappointed in myself.

now get to edit it and polish all the rough corners of it, in the end you may or may not reach the 50,000 but what matters is that you wrote the story that needed to be written out of your head. And for that my friend I admire you.:)

That's the plan! Editing next :)

I know! Damn them. It’s on again now…will leave on just in case. sigh.

I know! So mad!!!

iheartwritermonkey replied to your post: WHATTTTT???????

Seriously? So we have to stay up until 11??? Ugh… I’ll hope someone will put it up online early enough so I can watch it tomorrow morning before leaving for work. Thanks for the info!!!

lucky canadian bitch

Hee hee!

alwaysaspark replied to your post: Going to Watch Castle in an hour!

I’m hoping Canadians will share. I’m dying here! So hard to concentrate on things that need to get done when there’s a promo coming.

If I knew how to share I would! But I'm sure we will!

iheartwritermonkey replied to your post: Headhunters is giving me feels and I'm watching it on mute.

I’m trying to avoid watching the ep lol I’m listening to the Wicked soundtrack, which isn’t much better in terms of feels, but at least I can sing along :P