Just a little note on the progress of my NaNo-ing. We’re a week and a half in and I just passed the 15 thousand word mark yesterday. By my reckoning that makes me about 3500 words behind my original schedule but if I do 2000 words a day from now until the end I can still make it with a few thousand words to spare. I do think it’s getting easier, the inner voices have all but given up and left me to it at this stage. One thing that has helped with my Word Count button compulsion is to switch over to using a little programme called Dark Room. It transforms your screen into bright green text centered on a completely black background and it’s great if you’re like me and get easily sucked in to choosing fonts, setting margins, agonising over the thesaurus or any other procrastination blackhole. From the site:
Dark Room is a full screen, distraction free, writing environment. Unlike standard word processors that focus on features, Dark Room is just about you and your text.
And just to prove that this novel in a month malarky is not only possible it’s actually far too easy…as I went to input my wordcount for yesterday (at five to midnight because I have to squeeze every last word out of the day) I spotted that Ann Scanlan has reached 50,000 words already! I’m impressed and jealous all at once. She has promised to post on what she has learned from the whole process and I’m eager to read it…after her fingers have recovered somewhat though. Well done Ann!
4 replies on “15 Thousand Down, 35 Thousand To Go”
you go, girl!
Thanks Kyran :). I’m enjoying reading your blog, I really think I’d struggle with NaBloPoMo even more than I am with this novel writing so my hat’s off to you.
Thanks, Claire. 🙂 My lessons are up now. Remember, it’s about quantity – just get the words out. You can worry about quality later. We’ll definitely have to meet up to celebrate and compare notes when you’re done.
Keep going girl.
You’re one of three bloggers I know doing it and I’ve no doubt you’ll manage it.