I Challenged Myself To Write A Whole Book In One Month And I Totally Did It

Story of my life.

Do you know anyone who's written a book? Because it's definitely no small feat.

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Watch this woman take on the challenge of writing a novel in a month!

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Just ask Steph Cozza, who admits to not finishing most things she starts. So she set a goal to finish a book in just 30 days.

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This was part of a worldwide challenge called "National Novel Writing Month," otherwise known as "NanoWriMo" where you have to write a 50,000-word novel during the month of November.

She had her outline ready to go, and she had a pretty good idea of what her story would be about. Let's do this!

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Steph figured out she would have to write an average of 1,667 words a day to meet her 50,000-word goal challenge by the end of the month.

By the second day, she had written over 8,000 words! She was on a roll.

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BUT...a week into her challenge, Steph was struggling.

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"This is the first time I've just kind of hit a wall."

On day nine, she noticed she had significantly slowed down in her writing process, and it was getting difficult to even hit 1,000 words a day. Doh!

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After what she described as a very long time of excruciating writer's block, she hit a huge milestone on day 16.

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"I finally reached 25,000 words. I'm halfway there, guys!"

Then once she got past the mid-month hump, there was a lot of slacking.

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And on the 20th day, she realized she hadn't written anything in five days. "Why do I keep doing this? Why does this keep happening?"

Then Steph didn't write for a week. Because Thanksgiving and hanging out with her family "got in the way." LOL!

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It was November 27, and she only had a few days to finish her book.

She was at the home stretch, had written just over 40,000 words, and was determined to finish, dammit.

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"For the first time this month, I'm officially confident enough to say that I am going to finish NanoWriMo. I'm going to write 50,000 words in 30 days, and it feels so good to say that."

And on the last day of the challenge...she did it!

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Okay, so she technically wrote 50,011 words total. Wow.

She was so glad she decided to challenge herself, because this proved to be an incredible experience, and also surprisingly fun.

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To celebrate, she decided to print out all 172 pages so she could physically hold the book in her hands. And it felt gooooood.

Now, Steph is going to go through what she wrote, get herself an editor and an agent, and maybe we'll see this baby on bookshelves.

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Way to go, Steph!