Falling a little behind with just shy of 1,000 words today. I did come up with a great new setting that I’m excited about, and I made enough progress with the story to feel pretty good. But I think going to bed late last night had an impact on today, and I’ll be better served to rest up, hit the novel first thing in the morning. I’ll need to get about 2500 words in tomorrow to catch up, but I don’t have a ton else planned, so I can do it. I’ll do this Stephen King style: nothing else gets done tomorrow before my writing.
Writing-Wise
National Novel Writing Month: Day 3
I knew today would be a challenge because I had to mind the store for my main corporate client and also my good friend came to visit. So I’m pretty happy with the total of 1082 new words, especially happy that I wrote all those in 1.25 hours. This friend, bless her heart, is also a writer, and she was sharing some thoughts with me about getting into “the flow state” when one writes fast enough. In fact, I did sense that I was getting a lock on the narrative distance for this project for the first time tonight.
National Novel Writing Month: Day 2
Another good day. It started out with yoga and a lap around the park. Then I worked my day job for eight hours, got some positive feedback on my work-for-hire fiction gig, went to this grubby Starbucks, and busted out my NaNoWriMo quota in less than four hours.
National Novel Writing Month: Day 1
Day 1
So far, so good with 1,726 words for the day. It took me 4.25 hours, which again is not a bad pace, but I’m a bit concerned about writing speed when I consider that this is the part of the novel I’ve envisioned most clearly.
National Novel Writing Month: Day 0
I’m back for my third attempt at National Novel Writing Month. This time, I’m keeping a daily journal here in the Vale. These will be short entries, to save time.
Day 0