Draft the first

Since I think I've put something or other about writing in my "About the blog" blurb--or was that a couple of descriptions ago?--I just thought I would let all and sundry (meaning fanbase 'o three or four) that today I finished my first draft of the novel I started for NaNoWriMo. Mixed feelings of satisfaction and anticlimatic-ness, the latter largely because I know it still needs so much work.

Like I'm definitely going to have to take out the chapter entitled "In Which I Am Attacked By a Bike-Riding Ninja." And I'll probably also excise all the chapter titles. Though they were pretty fun to include during the craziness of NaNo itself because I'd have a flash of inspiration *cough*, include my title, and then have an idea of what I was going to write for the next twenty pages.

And I really need to solidify how, exactly, my MC's, er, "abilities" work. I'll have to dig out one of my journal entries (no, I don't blog that sort of stuff) since I think I came up with something semi-intelligent.

Anyway, it's here, draft the first of Augmentation for Beginners,* weighing in at 119,075 words; 348 pages in 12pt double-spaced Times New Roman.

If only my printer didn't keep blinking at me that it needs more black toner, I could print it out and snuggle with it. Alas.

*No, the novel has nothing to do with plastic surgery. It's a working title.