I STILL love my novel!

Usually, I start off loving my novel, but as the writing goes on, I begin to doubt it, and by the end I think it's sub-par at best, or a mess of word vomit at worst. There'll be a few scenes, a few characters, a few plot threads that I love, but it won't hold together.

Well, I'm happy to say not this year! I've finished my novel (or the first draft at least), and I still love. I've surprised myself time and again with how genuinely emotional I found it.

I'm glad I stuck at writing, even after my disastrous first two novels. I feel I've made such progress over the last few years.

Anyone else got sucsess stories like this?

Yeah! I just finished mine, and I'm--well, I'm not in love with it, exactly, but I really dig the story and the themes, and I'm pretty proud of it overall. This is the first time I've actually finished a novel; in the past I always end up giving up around 100k+ because I just hate it too much to go on. I think the story I had to tell this year was a lot stronger than those I've attempted in the past, which helped a lot, but also my writing itself is tons better than it was even last summer.

Same here! I actually reworked my novel from an idea I had for my very first NaNoWriMo about 5 years ago. Back then, I got about 17k words into it and gave it up because i hated it so much. But this year, maybe because of an immense amount of preplanning or who knows, I LOVE my novel so far. I reached 50k about halfway through the month (and stopped writing so I could concentrate on the 10k of school essays due next week), and plan on spending all of winter break from uni writing! I hope I can eventually finish the novel, it is my first time reaching 50k, and I'd love it to also be my first time finishing a novel!

Well, my novel is a discombobulated mess at the moment, but I still love it anyway! XD I'll fix it all up and turn it into something that's at least readable over the next year or so, and then maybe other people will love it, too. :3

I tend to hate them by the end of november, but by January I love them again! :D I hated my camp Nano at the start of august, but just read parts of it again and it's not that bad!

I started out loving it, but around week 4 it took a sharp downhill turn for the worst. With hours before the deadline, I somehow came up with fixes that made me come right back to loving it, and now I just want to rewrite it so the whole thing can be just as loved, because those fixes need to go back a long way.

I don't think I can hate any of my novels (not that too many are written), but sometimes I go back and reread them, just because I love them that much. It feels so good to relive the feeling you had when writing certain parts of a story.

I've finished my first draft... and I love it. This year's novel is fan-frickin'-tastic. Well...right now, at least =D

Still going strong with my novel and loving it. :D A new small antagonist is forming in my mind as we speak.

Practice makes perfect.

Given your word count, and the date you joined, what you have learned from your prior attempts have helped you deal with the problems that 'writing crap' or 'word vomiting' were meant to overcome. You're trained your Inner Editor to stand back and let the words flow while providing some guidance that makes the first draft something that you can still like.

Both you and your Inner Editor won this year.

Back again, a little sob story with a (spoiler) surprise! Happy ending.

I thought *this is it* this is the moment I've run out. I told myself, there was going to be a time to step away from the stories, you've run out of plotter fodder, and you can't force yourself to go on, it's too risky, you can't burn out on this story, It's too risky. So low and behold, the day I am deciding that it's over. I'm sleeping over at a friend's house, and as I begin to fall asleep this amazing plot scene has jumped into my head. One scene pops up they all pop up! And just scene after scene began to flow. Watch out Fortune's Demise! I'm not done yet! :D

Mine has a been a love project from start to finish. Even if I made some rather cringe-worthy errors (and I know we all have), I could never hate my novel. It's beautiful in its rough draft form and it will shine even more when it's polished.

I'm not confident enough to march up to publishing companies, but I'll leave it on the net for others to hopefully enjoy. It's a humble goal of mine to get just a small batch of readers.

The fact that I actually finished this one means something. I hated my first NaNo story when it was finally past November, and my second one I loved but never picked up again. This one is done. It really means a lot to me.

I do, too. I love my characters, especially my MCs' kids (even when they squabble and throw temper tantrums), and even though nothing at all happens, I think the story is quite cute. I didn't realise how often I let it rain, though, until I re-read it -- I think I was so scared it would be too sunny and happy, that I ended up making the weather absolutely atrocious LOL (My MCs are self-sufficient farmers so the weather plays a major role in my novel).

so for my third book I was totally dreading revizing since I figured it would be a total disaster. That of course if due to writing non-stop for like two weeks. So I started revizing and I discovered that everything was going pretty well except for the begining; it wasn't so good. But I'm getting into it and It's pretty cool. I don't love it, but it's still a nice story. I just know I'm going to have to change the ending now.... that's going to be difficult!

I'm still working on my first NaNo, and still loving it. I liked the story from the beginning. I like the characters too. One of my secondary characters (the one that I thought would be the most fun to write) has been scaled way back, and I recently (during editing) added a new character that has turned out to serve much of the purpose I originally thought the other would. Did that get confusing? :-\

Anyway, in many ways, I love my novel even more now than I did when I was hammering it out in November. Editing is so much more work than I imagined, but there is plenty of good stuff to keep me interested, and keep me working on it.

(Like I'm supposed to be doing now) ssshhhhhhh. :-p

Novel and book will be big part of our life. If you love the novel and book so you are a happiest person in the World.