NaNo… I’ve done it!!!

I’m so excited… and I have to say proud, to tell you that I’ve completed my 50,000 words on the National Novel Writing Month challenge! I actually completed my 50k on November 19th; my story is about an imaginary family tracing their roots, and they do it as anyone first starting out by using one of many genealogical sites available on the internet and looking at records. My family starts with the 1841 census, but then they also look at birth and marriage records and death records too. There is a parallel story of their present lives with different things happening, and I hope there will be some surprises to keep the reader interested, and to make sure the story actually comes to a conclusion and doesn’t just trail away as the researches reach some sort of conclusion.

My family just follow their surname back to when the first ancestor came to Britain in the 1830’s… in reality, someone doing research would be as interested in their maternal lines and the lines of their grandmothers and great and great-great grandmothers etc. That would be too widely spread for a novel and too confusing, and I don’t want it just to be lists of dates and names that would be too boring!

I have really enjoyed doing the NaNo challenge, I’ve found it really stimulating, and exciting as I had no real idea where my story was going to take me or even if it could be a proper story. I am continuing to write it and continuing to feed my word count into the site, and when we get to the end of November I shall keep on writing. I have another story which I am editing ready for publication which I hope will come out next month, and then my NaNo story I hope will come out on Kindle in the New year… then only ten months to go until the next National Novel Writing Month challenge in 2014!