NanoWriMo...oh no I'm starting to talk like them!

It's...well, it was, day 5 of National Novel Writing Month. I don't care if you're sick of me talking about it. There are 25...well, soon to be 24, days left, so you better get used to it!

Today my own personal goal was to get to the 10,000 word mark. At this moment I'm at 10,885/50,000. Hooray! I wrote 4093 words today (!) and my story took an interesting new direction. I'm not sure how it all goes together buy, I guess that's to worry about after it's written. When I realized what I had written and where it was going I actually started to giggle out loud. That's never good. Then again, I've also spent most of the day writing. I took my adderall at two separate times so I was able to concentrate better. One of the days I waited too late to start and it was like pulling teeth. I think it was day 3. But now I'm cruising along. It'll be interesting to see where it goes from here!

National Novel Writing Month

It's Day 2 of National Novel Writing Month and, yes, I've been writing! It's been a challenge for me to forget all I've been taught and just write. I know, boo hoo hoo for me. But in having a BA in English with a concentration in writing, there are certain things you're taught to do. And certain things you're taught not to. Like what I just did. I'm used to tightening up my prose as I go. When you're writing a 50,000 word novel in 30 days, you're going for quantity and not quality. Someone on the website joked that December is for editing. The entire point of doing this is to prove that it is possible for anyone to write a novel. 50,000 is technically a novella, but they wanted to make it doable for people that had full time jobs, children, were students, etc. could participate without killing themselves.

I was very upset on November 1st when I woke up with a cold. Well, I was actually upset during the night when I couldn't sleep because my nose wouldn't stop running. At one point I fell asleep with a tissue propped up against my nose. But I was still able to churn out over 1,000 words. In order to stay on track I have to produce around 1700 word a day. Today I made up for yesterday by bringing my two day total up to 3445. I'm actually hoping to finish a week early (glutton for punishment) so I don't have to worry about working on it while home for Thanksgiving.