NaNo day 1

November 1st is finally here, and that means writing madness at NaNo. I was actually planning on getting a few hundred words in at midnight, but only got home at 2:15 from a pretty lame anti-Halloween children's party. Exhausted, too. Luckily I had lots of free time on my hands today, so I just started during the day.

The beginning was pretty rough. Just to get those first few words on paper and not frantically delete and redo them is a mini-challenge in itself. But that's what the 'lock up your inner editor'-stuff is about, so I settled for something and moved forward. 350 words were easy, but then? I'm thinking my problem is I may have characters and general ideas and funky details worked out, but I have close to nothing when it comes to individual scenes.

I worked on it on and off all through the day. Some scenes would roll out quickly, others were more of a word to word struggle. But I needed to get my 2,500 words done so I kept going. On some of the next few days it might be hard to put hours in writing, and each day missed means, well, falling 2,500 words behind. I found some inspiration in certain songs, and too much distraction on the forums.

It's 22:00 now and I finally got them in. Phew! This may not become easy, but I already find it interesting what I have managed to get on paper.

WordCount: 2,540