NoQu 25: The Fire Unquenched

Well, if this challenge didn't go how I expected it to go, it went how I probably should have expected it to go. 50,000 words in one month as a beginning writer with a full-time job is too ambitious, even for Caesar. As I drew nearer to the end, I saw that my trajectory would land me around 25,000 instead, which suited me fine. 25,000 is a nice, tidy number, and half of the goal is a nice, tidy fraction. When I got past 20,000 words, there were five days left, so I said to myself, "This will work out perfectly. My average is 1,000 words per day, so there's just enough time to finish the last 5,000 and-"

At 11:59 PM, November 30, 2025, my document had 22,813 words.

Phooey.

That being said, I'm not done with this writing project yet. Theoretically, I could save the second half for next November, but now I'm in the swing of things and don't want to just quit - like Edna said, inspiration carrying me along and all that. So I'm going to keep working on it until I reach the original goal. I'd like to get it done by Christmas, but that gives me five days less than November with a little over the same amount, so... I guess I finish it when I finish it. Since my story is about otters going through a bunch of memories, it's somewhat open ended - I do have a list of memories that I specifically want to go through, but I think I'll write until I finish that or I reach the intended 50,000, whichever takes longer.

Anyway, the main reason I'm telling you all this is because I'd like to share my (eventually completed) story with any of you that would like to read it, and get feedback on it if I may. My idea was to put it all in a Google doc and share the link here. (Hopefully there won't be any problems with permissions or something.) As I finish writing about each memory, I'll paste the entire section into the doc. So what do all of you think? Does that sound good to you, or do you have a suggestion for a better way I could do it?