The long hard road

It's only day 5 of my Nano challenge and already it's feeling like a long hard journey.  I'm approximately 8,000+ words into it and know that I have many more words to go yet I'm starting to feel excited.  You see I took on this challenge hoping that the motivation would force me to finish a book that has been simmering in my imagination for more than 6 years, rotting on my hard drive for at least 5 years, and waiting to be finished.  Now I feel like I'm standing on the edge of a cliff looking out and there just over the next bump is the end of the journey.  I can see the end of the story!!!  I am almost there!  Holy Crap!  I can't wait until the post that says THE END but in the meantime I'm going to sprint my way over the long hard road and make it to my destination.  I may metaphorically kiss the ground once I'm there just so I can be proud of my accomplishment but more realistically I'll probably work on filling out my 50,000 word count by finishing another of my *ahem* many books that I have started to write and never finished.  Although I'm sad to say that the characters are just now telling me there will be a book 2 in this set so perhaps book two will need a beginning, we shall see!  In the meantime I think I need some potato chips and chocolate milk. Happy writing all!