Had a great day yesterday for the start of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). My local writing group, the Saturday Writers, met at one of our member’s houses for our own write-in. Seven of us around the dining room table madly writing away. It was glorious. Of course, we did a lot more talking than writing, but that’s part of the fun of our group. We talk a lot about writing–about what works for each of us, what doesn’t, what each person is working on, we throw out ideas on writing questions… we have a lot of fun.

For words yesterday, I got 2466 words done. A nice start to NaNo. Could have done more, but I’m not going to burn myself out at the beginning of November. Think Tortoise and the Hare. I’m a turtle this month.

I’ve added to the count today and am up to 4696. I have six dead bodies in my story so far. Not bad for a scifi novel.

This is my fifth year doing NaNo. Squeaked in just under the deadline the first year due to family vacation to Branson, MO over Thanksgiving. The next two years I finished with no problems. Last year I got bored with the whole endeavor and just stopped writing after a couple weeks. This year, I’m looking at the 50k finish line and thinking, “This is too easy.” I already know I can write 50k in 30 days. So because that isn’t a hard enough challenge, I’m adding to it this year.

Found this post on Non-Fiction In November Challenge. It’s a group of non-fiction writers who challenge themselves to 50k of non-fiction during November. I have several projects in the works for the website here, so why not take up the challenge and work on them?

Because I still have NaNo and the day job to worry about though, I’m shooting for 25k of non-fiction writing. That should be enough of a challenge to satisfy my overachieving soul. Headed off to work on the non-fiction stuff now. I’ll let you know how I’m doing tomorrow.

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