A Novel

A long time ago, in a galaxy far away... not really, it was just in November of last year and it was in my house... I wrote a novel.  I added a title page, chapters, page numbers, a pronunciation guide, everything.  I edited it on numerous occasions and went through several revisions, one of which was a really big one that added thirty pages the work!  I had been working on it with Luke, one of my best friends.  But what we wrote together was just the middle of it.  In November I participated in an event called NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month).  NaNoWriMo is an event in which everyone that participates sets a word-count goal for themselves and then writes.  They write and write and write and if they reach their word-count goal, they are a NaNoWriMo winner and they receive five free copies of their novel!  And so I did it, and in fact exceeded my goal of twenty-thousand words.  If I had written ninety-three more words, I would have reached forty-thousand words!  But alas, I only wrote thirty-nine-thousand-three-hundred-seven words.  Ah, well.  It was a bucket of fun.  I have spent the last six months working on it and this Wednesday (tomorrow!) I will send it off to the publisher and they will give me my five free copies.  I feel almost finished.  As soon as I get those copies... I can't wait until they come in the mail and I squeal for joy!  I am, of course, keeping my own copy.  I am also giving one to my parents, one to Luke, one to Aria (my very best friend!), and one to Olivia (my favorite cousin).  I can't wait!

The novel is about me.  Only it's about me in a different dimension and in a different time period and my character in the story is actually an "improved" version of myself.  Somewhat improved.  She has all of my good qualities.  *snicker*  The story is about my character's adventures.  I intend to write a series of novels about my character.  I've already started on the second one.  I'm so glad!  But I need a break from the characters in the book, so as soon as I get my novel finished, I'll either write something else or I'll just go read for a while.

I love being an author.

Author Amory McKay