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title: "Nanowrimo Novel Finished!!!"
date: 2003-11-28
author: "Richard MacManus"
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  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2003"
    url: "/tag/2003.md"
---

# Nanowrimo Novel Finished!!!

[50,060 words. Completed in 27 days.](https://web.archive.org/web/20040306090222/http://www.readwriteweb.com/stories/2003/11/23/nanowrimoNovelPart4.html) The new name of my novel is: **Dirt-side to Space-side**. This is a [NASA term](https://web.archive.org/web/20040306090222/http://keskus.hut.fi/opetus/s38118/s99/htyo/3/3.shtml) for the Interplanetary Internet. I’ll post a PDF version of my novel in the next day or two (once I correct the spelling mistakes).

Looks like I’m the second Nanowrimo winner from Wellington, New Zealand. Am feeling calm and happy. Exhausted, but satisfied. Over the next few weeks I will write more about what I’ve learned and the process of writing a novel in a month. Thanks to everyone who wrote encouraging comments. The Two-Way Web is a beautiful thing. Peace.

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/2003/11/28.html#a159))*