October Novel Prep Challenge

In a nutshell, no. That's all I have to say about that.

As for your novel started at 16, if it is anything like my early stuff, be glad you lost it

I'm proud of a few things I wrote at that age, but those are all short works and poems. Nothing of novelette length or greater was worth much. Although, some of the ideas from them survived to become very different work later. My brain was just not ready to build a bigger work at that age, I'm afraid.
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Regards,
Eric Fretheim
Assistant Prep Leader, 2015 October NaNoWriMo Prep Challenge

"It is perfectly okay to write garbage-- as long as you edit brilliantly." ~C.J. Cherryh

“No, writing 50,000 words in a month is normal. You are not crazy. This is not insane.” ~Teri Brown