National Novel Writing Month 2011
I am participating in National Novel Writing Month this year. I haven’t participated since 2004. Here is how I felt after last time:
I told myself that I was going to take a month off and not write a word for a month, but my fingers have all of these muscles from writing every day and they get restless if I leave them with nothing to do. I wrote over 14,000 words in two days. I can’t expect to go cold turkey, can I?
After years of writing almost every day, doing 2000 words a day isn’t that difficult. I am working on my new novel/blog: Merriton – 35 Minutes from Home. I already had several chapters written before I started and an outline for each week for the next two years, but I’m not counting all that in my word count for NaNoWriMo. I’m just working on adding 2000 new words to the total every day this month (except the four days for Thanksgiving weekend).
My only hope is that I don’t procrastinate and leave myself with 14,000 words to write in the last two days like I did in 2004.