So, I've been writing a novel...

I've been writing since second grade, but I didn't start writing anything good until 6th grade. 7th grade wasn't that good. 8th grade was full of teeny projects that never went anywhere. 9th grade I did work on a story that I loved, but I got the strong feeling that it wouldn't go anywhere past my head. But during spring break of my freshman year, I decided to try something with descriptions. So I opened up Word and started to type a murder mystery. Here's what I wrote (it did change from a murder mystery to science-fiction, because I got bored of my murderer):

"The man turned his head right, then left, then right again. His brown overcoat moved with the breeze, revealing his socks to the people standing next to him: one red, one green. His white running shoes, which had been colored on with permanent marker, were torn from overuse. His fedora covered his face; no one could see what he looked like.

Which was good.

Very good.

The light changed, allowing him and the people around him to cross the street. The buildings towered over them and all the sounds of the city bounced off of them, as well as the little bit of heat that the sun released. However, that was of little interest to him. All that concerned him was keeping his coat closed, keeping his eyes down, keeping himself secret. The people that saw him quickly forgot him. He was nothing special: Just a man who kept to himself, and they were a dime a dozen."

That is the beginning of Chapter 1 of a story I wrote in March, 2013. 

There's this program called "NaNoWriMo" (National Novel Writing Month) that I was introduced to in 7th grade. Every November, people from all over the world try to write a novel (50,000 words, officially) in a month. It's not something I've been able to do, so I cheat, starting my novel months ahead of time, and even then I fail to complete it on time. For this year's NaNo (November, 2013), I entered in my novel "The Man That Time Forgot". I had 25,301 words already, and I managed to type up a total of 37,793 words (so I typed 12,492 words in two days-I wrote way more than that in my handwritten copy). That got me to about Chapter 13, maybe 14. By the end of the month, I was in the middle of Chapter 18 (handwritten). I lost in November.

But as it's a 3-day weekend, I started up writing again. I was now typing Chapter 17 (handwritten, I'm in Chapter 23). I had about 46,000 words typed. 

Guess what?

I just started typing Chapter 18, and I'm at 50,095 words. I won NaNoWriMo (even though I'm six months late)!!

ALSO guess what?

My novel is due to have 25 chapters. I have 3 left to write. Oh, yeah! I should be done this summer, and then I can start my junior year with the sequel!

Oh, my, will I have time to do this in college?