NaNo is coming! NaNo is coming!

Two days until November first!

Get your writing gloves on, your thinking cap on straight, and you keyboard warmed up - it's going to be a real ride!

NaNo Goal-Setting

Last year for NaNo, I ended up finishing the month at a few thousand words beyond the 50,000 word finishing line - not too much beyond it, though. And I heard/read about people who actually wrote DOUBLE that amount, and were still going strong. The Daily Goal was 1,655 words, to make the precise 50,000 words to earn the purple bar on the NaNo website. Hey, it's a small goal, but if it works, I'm not complaining.

So this year, I'm going to see if I can add to the daily word goal and make it...let's see:

2,500 words/day = 75,000 words/November

Is it too lofty a goal? Yeah, for me, it probably is, but this year, I have the added advantage of Little Guy being in preschool, so I can sometimes use those two hours to my benefit. If only I can stay off the internet, I think I can work it out. And it's the internet that's been the real time-suck. The Black Hole of time. It's addictive, and if I'm going to do *anything*, it's going to have to take a backseat.

Like last year, be prepared for this LJ to turn into NaNo land. Oh, and visit Julie Fortune's NaNo LJ - it's listed on my flist list. Lots of fun writers joined in last year to beat the clock, and a very respectable 12 (I think) finished, and got a mention in her newest Weather Warden book on the dedication page. She is a very cool person. She's got even more incentives than the NaNo site has. :-)

Join in the fun and misery of long writing hours! Concoct story out of thin air! Finish that fanfic you've been dreaming about for years! (that's one I should listen to) etc and so forth!