For those who don't know, I did NaNoWriMo this year, working on an original story of mine known as Fathersbane. However, what with one thing and another in late november/december, I never found the time to finish it. As one of my New Years Resolutions (so far as I have them) was to finish this story, the other night I reread the 50k I had written so far, to get in the mood to write more. I plan on it being a 150-200k story in the end, which makes it about 350-500 pages long, though I'd be fine with a 250-page one if i said everything.

Now, don't get me wrong - it's a perfectly decent little story. It's just not, by any means, of publishing standards. Yet. There is so much depth it needs, so much greater background and deeper characters and more controlled plot (certain extraneous elements have got to go). And, over the next month or so, I am going to do the detail I never did before - I will flesh out the faceless minor characters, I will add colour to the world and focus to the plot. And THEN I will try again - using the original for a basis, as it certainly is a good starting point, but making it so much better. I already have a strong idea of what to do at the beginning Hopefully, it'll be started before I go back to Uni - it's a lot to write in a year, after all. And then editing, and re-editing... it's a daunting prospect.

Right, the point? Since this is happening, am considering posting segments of the original up, if anyone's interested in reading them. What do you think?