05 November 2009

NaNoWriMo

When I was in the UK I read an article in one of the Sunday magazines. And like the very best lazy-Sunday morning reads, I thought - that'd make a great book.

So I've put the murder-mystery-in-a-natural-history-museum on hold for a month, and am delving into NaNoWriMo - National Novel Writing Month. The goal is to write a 50 000 word first draft in the month of November - 1667 words per day.

So Michael (who has also signed up) and I headed down to the Great Ocean Road for a few days to get some serious, internet-free, no-distractions writing done.

pretty place makes pretty writing?

I know there're some days this month where I won't be able to get any writing done at all, so I wanted to get a good head start. So this is the morning of Day 5 and I'm sitting on 10 715 words. Not very good words, I admit.

Back to it!

3 comments:

  1. oh dear. i'm only 370-something words in. i decided to do this just yesterday, which is my excuse.
    i will have to chase your word count with gusto, i see.
    good luck!

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  2. If anything can inspire you, it's that wonderful misty forest. Go, Lili!

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  3. Good for you. Go for it!

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