Slow and Steady...Or Just Make a Run For It

I've considered myself a slow and steady writer for a long time. I wrote my novella for class by writing about a page a day. The longest work I had written prior to a week ago, at 28,000 words, I wrote over about four years. It kept slowly growing as I thought of a new plot idea and went back to it.

In this post I made a goal of writing 750 words a day, with the ultimate goal being finishing the first draft of my WIP by the time I went back to school in September.

I finished the first draft yesterday.

Me, the slow and steady writer who thought 750 words a day was accessible but probably around my max, started coming home from work and writing 1,000 words, then 2,000 words a day, then 3,000. Between Thursday and yesterday I wrote 20,000 words. And then, to my shock, I was done.

And not only was it my first draft, it was my first draft ever of a novel length work. Even if it is absolutely no good, that was a huge step for me.

It has a lot of revising that needs to be done, because I decided to just get it all out on the page and then figure it out from there - but I'm very eager to start it. And throughout this process I've thought of several topics I want to blog about, but I was too caught up with all the writing! So be on the lookout for them.

I think that writing this so quickly is definitely the thing that has shocked me most in my writing journey (which began when I was five!), so what's the most shocking part of yours? Seriously, I want to know!