I wrote a book in two months. *excited panic*

Disclaimer: I am going a bit crazy and trying to create things so I won’t go totally crazy, so you might see a lot more posts than the usual number. I am in quarantine for a bit and I am looking for things intentionally to help me lift my spirits, and writing, talking about writing and writing about writing has always been one of those things.

And almost a week later, I am still in complete awe.

Technically, it’s a novella. But still. It’s a book. But before I go into my process and everything, let’s go back to NaNoWriMo 2021.

I started talking about how I wanted to finish my 2021 project on my podcast in December, as I reflected on NaNoWriMo. I was ecstatic, ready, and full of energy when I decided to dust that Google Doc off and dive back in.

I sat my calendar down, flipped it to April, and marked “Finish Amy & McKenzie!” on the last day of April. I was confident that I was going to overdeliver, though, which I was completely right about.

Little did I know I was going to finish on January 8th, 2022, three weeks after vowing that I would spend time on the book everyday until I finished it.

It is 125 pages long on 8.5×11 sized paper, but with all my formats (I’d like the book to be 5.06×7.81, from Amazon’s KDP website) it’s 180 pages. I haven’t yet went through it and started editing, as I’ve learned it’s best to wait a month to do things like that. Right now, I am focusing my attention on writing another novella. Not sure how long this one will be.

So…tell us what happened. we want to know.

I was at the library, a new one actually.

I immediately checked for computers, because if they had some, I wanted to try them.

I took some pics of the bookshelves, sat down, and then started working on a previous assignment I was working on. After I finished that (or maybe, while I was typing…) I found myself floating over to the search bar and going to google docs. I had been working on the book on my phone while on the way to the library, and when I came to the end of the chapter, I knew I was done.

I felt it.

Overall, reflecting on the writing process, I can’t believe I actually wrote a chapter book. You don’t know how long I wanted to grow the skills to do something like this. I never thought I’d be able to accomplish something like this so soon.

I’m not scared of sharing my ideas, so as the time goes on and I begin editing the book to actually turn it into a book on my shelf, I’ll of course post more about this project. Right now, as I’m taking a break from it, I’m just going to write another novel about Itachi Uchiha. (the creative juices are really flowing this year.)

Stay tuned for more updates!

Here’s a picture of me holding my baby. Yay!