NaNoWriMo: One week down
November 8th, 2007 by matt
Today marks seven days into National Novel Writing Month. After tonight’s writing I’m up to 12045 words. I’m slightly ahead of the pace I need to maintain in order to hit 50,000 by November 30th. I’m a little worried about keeping up the pace because I’m going to be in North Carolina from Friday to Tuesday on vacation, and Turkey Day is coming up soon. Both events will probably constrain my time even more than it currently is.
But I’m going to remain positive and try my best. For the first week I’ve been able to write every night. It takes me between an hour to an hour and a half to crank out my quota (1667 words a day). No clue if that’s good or bad or just is, but that means I need to find an hour+ every day to sit down and write. That’s meant cutting out any time I was using to watch TV or DVDs or time I was using to read books. I guess I can sacrifice for a month.
My understanding of how real writers work (real writers being ones that don’t have a day job and support themselves on nothing but their writing) is that they treat writing like a regular job. They get up in the morning or early afternoon, throw on some comfortable writing clothes like sweat pants and t-shirts with beer logos, eat some breakfast and/or crack open a bottle of Jack, and crank out some words for the next few hours.
It sounds nicer than I bet it is in reality. That’s what I keep saying to myself, anyway.
But yeah, so far, so good. I hope I can keep it up.
Marci wrote on 11/8/07 at 2:10 pm :
You’re doing great! I can’t wait to see the final result.