NaNoWriMo Day 3

...was my first "succesful" day!

If you aren't familiar with the whole NaNoWriMo deal, check out the website (which I believe I linked to in my last post). One of the features is a chart that tracks your progress. This is helpful because it tells me how many words I need to write per day to real the goal of 50,000 in 30 days(which is about 1,670, if you're wondering). Then, if you miss a day, or have an off day where you can only think of ten words to write, it lets you know how many you're going to need to crank out the next day to make up for it.

My first day was not good as far word count goes (about 500 words). I counted it as a success for myself, though, because a) I started, and b) I came up with an actual idea for a story that I felt I could work with. So...word count schmerd count.

Day 2 was better in terms of the number of words I managed to bang out. It was about half of what I "need" to write each day, but that felt better than the day before. And then yesterday...

I did it! I wrote about 1,700 words, and it felt great. I ended the day with over 3,000 words total, and as of right now (around 2pm on day 4) I'm just about to hit 4,000. Yay.

So, there's an update about that. My plan is NOT to do an update every day on my progress, but instead to post something every few days. I can only write so much in one day, people!

PS: "Conversation 16" by the National has turned out to be my song of choice for this project. It's got the right tone and the right allusions to dark fantastic characters.