NaNoWriMo Day 9

NaNoWriMo par: 1,667 words/dayNaNoWriMo total: 15,000 wordsPersonal par: 2,000 words/dayPersonal total: 19,917 words Another good morning of writing.  I had a list of scenes to work off of and wrote two of those scenes, not quite completing the second.  The first scene ran around 800 words, the second 1,200 for a total of 2,061 words today.  [...]

NaNoWriMo Day 8

NaNoWriMo par: 1,667 words/dayNaNoWriMo total: 13,336 wordsPersonal par: 2,000 words/dayPersonal total: 17,856 words Breakthrough!  While I didn’t really get a chance to do much of the planning I had written about yesterday, I did scribble down a list of related scenes that I feel need to be part of the story.  I decided to proceed [...]

NaNoWriMo Day 7 (Week 1 complete!)

NaNoWriMo par: 1,667 words/dayNaNoWriMo total: 11,667 wordsPersonal par: 2,000 words/dayPersonal total: 15,324 words Up at 7 am this morning and I wrote until about 9:30.  I was trying to see if I could hit 16,000 words by the end of week 1, but I didn’t quite make it.  I managed 2,089 words today, but it [...]

NaNoWriMo Day 6

NaNoWriMo par: 1,667 words/dayNaNoWriMo total: 10,000 wordsPersonal par: 2,000 words/dayPersonal total: 13,235 words Today was the first day that I didn’t make my personal goal (although I still exceeded NaNoWriMo par).  I finished this morning with 1,839 words, 161 words short of my goal.  I suppose I could have prodded on for another 5 minutes and gotten [...]

NaNoWriMo Day 5

NaNoWriMo par: 1,667 words/dayNaNoWriMo total: 8,335 wordsPersonal par: 2,000 words/dayPersonal total: 11,396 words Please indulge me for a moment as I scream out CONGRATULATIONS to the World Champion New York Yankess!  (It’s been a long time coming.) I stayed up to watch the entire game, of course, and the celebrations afterward, and it was well after [...]

NaNoWriMo Day 4

NaNoWriMo par: 1,667 words/dayNaNoWriMo total: 6,667 wordsPersonal par: 2,000 words/dayPersonal total: 9,227 words Since the novel I am attempting to write is a science fiction novel, and since it is, specifically, a hard science fiction novel, there is a certain amount of technical information that has to be conveyed.  It has to be interesting and [...]

NaNoWriMo Day 3

NaNoWriMo par: 1,667 words/dayNaNoWriMo total: 5,000 wordsPersonal par: 2,000 words/dayPersonal total: 6,783 words I figured that today would be the first tough day of NaNoWriMo for me.  That’s because I knew well how to introduce the story and that the Prologue (which was written Sunday and Monday) would be almost like a self-contained short story.  [...]

NaNoWriMo Day 2

NaNoWriMo par: 1,667 wordsNaNoWriMo total: 3,334 wordsPersonal par: 2,000 wordsPersonal total: 4,725 words Up at 5 am (after going to be at close to midnight last night, having watched the Yankees go up 3-1 against the Phillies) and came into the office to do my writing for the day.  I started from where I left [...]

NaNoWriMo Day 1

NaNoWriMo par: 1,667NaNoWriMo total: 1,667Personal par: 2,000Personal total: 2,153 NaNoWriMo officially began today at midnight, but since I was still watching the Yankees beat the Phillies, I didn’t get started until 7 am this morning. I was up just before 7 am, showered, and came down to the new office, and sat in my new [...]

Preparing for NaNoWriMo

First, for those who don’t know, NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month.  It begins November 1 and ends November 30 and the goal is to write 50,000 words of a novel in 30 days. My first attempt at NaNoWriMo was in November 2007.  During that 30 days I managed to write 22,000 words, which [...]