November 1st is always an exhilarating day. You get heady and flush with the idea of doing a novel (or in some cases, another novel) and the ideas just start whooshing out of your head faster than you can get them down. Often times, you think of an idea and the thought is “that is possibly the worst idea ever”, but during this month, none of that matters. Your internal editor is on vacation. As Hemmingway said, all first drafts are shit. How true that is.
It was so good to get some writing done, to get so much of it done in one day. I feel like I’m off to a better start than I was last year. 4,095 words today. That’s a little done at noon (around 600) and the balance of it done between 7pm and 11pm tonight. In all, four and 1/2 hours produced a little over 4,000 words. Now that is actually down from what I usually can type. I can usually get ungodly numbers of words down in a little bit of time. I did a little editing of myself tonight as I tried to do two things that I normally don’t do when I write. First of all, I tried to concentrate and provide some detail (that’s when I started to take off with some of my word counts) and also, I tried to keep within one point of view. I often switch points of view as quickly as I think of someone else. I bring in someone else’s thoughts into a scene and don’t even realize it. I think to myself, what is this guy thinking right now, how should he react, and before you know it, boom. I’ve switched into someone elses head for a second and then pop back in where I was before. Because of these awarenesses, it has slowed me down a bit, but not too much. Hopefully, I can get back on this train and keep going.
Tomorrow should be a good night for this as well. I should be able to get around four hours more tomorrow. If I can achieve another 4,000 words, that would be awesome. Actually, that should be able to get me to where I want to be to actually start the main story. I know it sounds confusing, but tonight was a part of the appendix and the prologue. Should get to the actual story by Thursday, at least that is the plan.
More updates as I’m able to produce them. If I have time (and if it is easy), I’d like to provide a progress bar so others could view how I’m doing without hoping the the NaNoWriMo site. We’ll see what I can do.
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