NaNoWriMo: Day 1

I've been absent from this blog for a while, but with the beginning of NaNoWriMo (www.nanowrimo.org) yesterday, I've decided to blog about the process. I've made good progress on plotting, I'm onto the last 3 sequences. I'm hoping by the time I get to there, it'll be either not November, or I'll have figured out how to get to the ending, and what the last few plot pinches are.

So yesterday was the first day. I probably broke some kind of record by almost giving up at 10am, with < 500 words written. Things were slightly better over lunch, when I took an hour or so to hit 830-some. This was my official goal for the day, since I was intending on only hitting 25k for the month, instead of the full 50.  Things were looking grim though, as I wasn't happy with the content of the writing at all. There was something missing.

After I was done with work (around 5pm), I went home for dinner, and started to revisit the writing. Rather than try and plow forward, I decided to go back to the beginning and add in whatever I felt was missing, reword / reorder some sentences, etc. I didn't completely axe any sentence, which probably fluffs my wordcount a bit since it's commented (doesn't appear in the final document), but it's in the NaNo spirit. I'm happier with it, even if looking at my writing buddies list makes me depressed. I tried to get more done this morning, but that seems to have not worked too well. Maybe I'll manage a good chunk of writing over lunch, since I won't have time this evening unless I don't want to sleep tonight.