Sunday, November 1, 2009

NaNoWriMovember Day 1

Ok. This is image #1: me sans facial hair. I suppose it doesn't mean much to anyone who doesn't really know me. I probably should have posted before and after shots, but I didn't actually think of that until after I had already shaved off half the beard. You'll also note the five o'clock shadow - I took this one late in the evening. I'll try to take all the other ones in the morning from now on.

First day of NaNoWriMo as well. It went alright. Got a bit of an outline done, and wrote about 1000 words so far. That's a little less than the 1500\day that I need to do to achieve the minimum 50 thousand - assuming I write the minimum each day for the whole month. I'll try to put some more into it tonight before I go to bed.

The biggest problem that I'm facing with NaNoWriMo right now is trying not to rush. I'm much more accustomed to writing short stories - it'll be hard to break the tendancy to get everything wrapped up in less than 10 or so pages. It's a bit of a shift in the way I think about writing, I suppose. Anyway, I'm not too worried, it'll come eventually. And there's no rules to say that you have to write everything linearly. I suspect that I'll end up going back and forth to fill in some details throughout the month.

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