it seems nutty, but here i am….

i’ve decided to do nanowrimo this year – which is a curiosity even to me. i wasn’t even sure until last night at 12:01 (couldn’t sleep – fireworks), when i started penning my novel, to reach 50,000 words by month’s end.

no doubt – it seems really stupid, but the premise behind nanowrimo is actually sound – which is to get the first shitty draft of a book done without thinking about it too much – to suspend the internal editor in a fit of deadline-panic – and to just force the self to sit down every day to write. so far i have 2406 words between last night’s short burst, the ferry this morning and a mid-morning wait for file transfers that gave me another 40 minutes of writing space.

will i actually make the rest of the 47 594 words? that i’m really not sure about. so far i’m amazed i have got some sort of a story on the go, with characters and a plot direction and everything, and i didn’t start with much more than a general idea – but we’ll see. i’m sure my enthusiasm will wane somewhere in the first few days.

i will not be posting my nanowrimo work to this blog, though i will post my word count occasionally (or perhaps even daily) for those of you who want to cheer me on (and please do, cheer me on that is).

besides that, my swimming routine seems to have increased to 30 freestyle laps from 22, which i’m quite pleased about. whoooo! tuesday.