Winner of NaNo 2006!

I wrote a 50,000-plus-word novel in one month! This is my third year winning National Novel Writing Month and it feels wonderful! The only problem is while I love the world I have created, I'm not thrilled with the story or the characters. So, what I will probably end up doing is fully developing my wolrd and then finding awesome characters to fill it and tell their stories. I could write a few short stories about them to send off to contests or magazines or I could just work on it as a whole novel and then work on the second book of the series for NaNo 2007. I'm not sure where I will go from here. I wil need December to prepare for the holidays and to research more subjects with which to fascinate my daughters. I figure I'll pick up my novel again in January. I definitely feel better knowing I can write a novel even with as busy as I am everyday. All it takes is to stick to my early-morning writing schedule and all is right with the world.