The first day of NaNoWriMo

Nov 01 2009

@N04/2964757672">NaNoWriMo: the home front
Image by @N04/2964757672">mpclemens via Flickr

Heavy driving rain this morning, with gale force winds. It’s so bad I am thinking of confining the chickens to their coops, with food and water of course, before we make the journey over from North Yorkshire to the north-west Lancashire coast to visit friends. Just checked and they’ve got a weather warning out from midday until 6pm for much the same as we have here right now.

Today is the first day of NaNoWriMo (check out the website link and the Twitter hashtag #nanowrimo for more info, it’s not too late to sign up and take part if you do so today!).

I got started as soon as I woke, with cup of coffee in hand, and after two more cups of coffee and two hours had passed me by in what felt like the wink of an eye, I found I had exceeded the necessary 1,666 words that are needed every day to meet the final word count of 50,000 by midnight on November 30th. I actually managed 2,871 and was suffering from the effects of caffeine abuse so I’m laying off the stuff for several hours.

And now I just (just!) have to reach or surpass that word count for another 29 days…

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  • anneonline
    I am just getting started and hope to find my stride. Now that I have food in my belly it is time to get some music and go for gold!
  • Go go go Anne. I'm moving slower today than at midnight. but it might be that I was up till the wee hours. Ha.
    Best of luck. I'm tojosan on Nanowrimo. Be sure to buddy up!
  • I've added you in on NaNoWriMo, and thank you. I see it's not your first, you've done it a couple of years before. Excellent! I've known of it for many years but never felt drawn to take part until now, which is down to a number of factors mostly in my own head...

    I find my writing period each day starts off slow, gets into a good stride and then either ends by necessity - other things needing to be done - or because I start to feel brain fatigue. While I am trying hard to hammer out the word count, and not invoke my inner editor, I don't want to end up writing absolute garbage just for the sake of competing either! So when I feel my head is tiring, I have to stop for either a few hours or the day, reluctantly but, I think, by necessity.
  • Yay! Go for it indeed!
  • I'm going to be suffering caffeine abuse soon. Dosed up heavy this morning as we started with a write-in from midnight to 2 AM. Great time including the writing. I made it to about 1500 words in those two hours. Something tells me I could have easily done more but the laughter, music and stories slowed us down a bit. Ha.
    Cheers.
    Find me on Nanowrimo - tojosan
  • I think it's important to write as much as you can but not if you start to feel fatigued - far better to take regular breaks away from the computer or notepad or whatever altogether. Good luck!
  • Definitely I'll not overdue it. Likely I'll under do my capacity today as I'm feeling the yawns striking. Ha.
    Best wishes on your novel as well.
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