NaNoWriMo 2023 - Day #1
Today’s stats: 8 pages, 2222 words
NaNo Totals: 8 pages, 2222 words
For NaNoWriMo this year, I decided to be a REBEL by working on “Curaçao Eyes”, the historical romance novel that I began at the beginning of this year. It’s a story that I am bound and determined to FINISH - and SUBMIT for publication eventually. However, I won’t think about that part of the process until after I’ve written “The End” on the first draft of the manuscript for this novel! One thing at a time, and right now, that “one thing” is NaNoWriMo - 50,000 words of the first draft!
My original goal for NaNoWriMo 2023 was to use a “reverse word count chart” - in which I write the most words at the beginning of the month (i.e. 3,000+ words during the first week) and then slowly decreasing until I’d only have to write 1 word on November 30th. I’ve been trying (off and on) to approach NaNoWriMo in this manner, but it’s never worked out for me. Now that I’ve discovered GWIC (Global Write-in Crawl), an international event that features days and days of sprints designed to help writers crank out the words in 15- to 30-minute intervals, I’m hoping to make easy work of those initial days of 3,000+ words. Once I’m able to get past that word-count hurdle, the rest of the month SHOULD be fairly easy since each day’s quota will go down every day.
NaNo Totals: 8 pages, 2222 words
For NaNoWriMo this year, I decided to be a REBEL by working on “Curaçao Eyes”, the historical romance novel that I began at the beginning of this year. It’s a story that I am bound and determined to FINISH - and SUBMIT for publication eventually. However, I won’t think about that part of the process until after I’ve written “The End” on the first draft of the manuscript for this novel! One thing at a time, and right now, that “one thing” is NaNoWriMo - 50,000 words of the first draft!
My original goal for NaNoWriMo 2023 was to use a “reverse word count chart” - in which I write the most words at the beginning of the month (i.e. 3,000+ words during the first week) and then slowly decreasing until I’d only have to write 1 word on November 30th. I’ve been trying (off and on) to approach NaNoWriMo in this manner, but it’s never worked out for me. Now that I’ve discovered GWIC (Global Write-in Crawl), an international event that features days and days of sprints designed to help writers crank out the words in 15- to 30-minute intervals, I’m hoping to make easy work of those initial days of 3,000+ words. Once I’m able to get past that word-count hurdle, the rest of the month SHOULD be fairly easy since each day’s quota will go down every day.