nanowrimo

I’ve managed to keep up with NaNoWriMo for seven days now, writing every day. Even better, I’m still on track to “win”. That is, I’m on track to have written 50,000 words of something approaching a novel (what I’ve written is pretty crap I’m sure but I don’t know — I’m refusing to read it…

I’ve managed to hit my word counts for three days straight now. And two of them are weekend days. I’m feeling like I can pull this thing off. And I’m spending only about an hour a night writing which is far less time than I was afraid I would be doing. Maybe it’ll get worse…

So, writing is hard. My strategy is to be like the dog who cloaks himself in stink and not care so much about the quality of what I write as I write it — to just go — but it’s going to be a slog. I thought I could easily knock out the daily 1,667 words…