I promise that I will try to post on something other than my progress on NaNoWriMo, but the start is perhaps the most fun. Even though I have a lot of notes and drafts to guide me, I do not know exactly how my protagonist will move from point A to point B. Writing to discover what I’m writing is so much fun, especially at first.
So, ahem, hoorah for making progress on day three: 5,908 words! The old NaNoWriMo website had a way of making me push to write and update my word count on the website every day because otherwise I wouldn’t earn some of the badges for keeping up a daily streak. I realize that this shouldn’t matter, but I really like earning those badges.
Some of my Nano buddies have noticed that the new website, while lovely, still has a few glitches. One thing that has happened for me is that when I post my word count early in the day, I don’t earn any of the badges, such as the one you get for writing your first 1,667 words, or the one you get for 2 days of writing, etc. But I’ve also noticed that when I go back to update later in the day, those badges appear. I’m not sure why that is, but I thought I’d mention it in case any of you are having a similar experience.
Streaks are a bit of a theme for me today. I spent most of the day just thinking about what I needed to do rather than doing it, mostly caught up in family life of a Sunday. But this evening, I managed to squeeze in ten minutes or so on several projects. It gives me hope that maybe my NaNoWriMo novel won’t be the only project that I work on every day. I need to remember that a little can go a long way.
Which is why, ahem, I also wanted to update my blog. I know I said I wouldn’t be able to post on here every day in November as I did last year, but it turns out I want to keep up with this, too. If I can. If it doesn’t stress me out or discourage me.
It does seem to me that short bouts of writing every day on each of my projects could lead me to good places. At least, that’s the plan for now.
Write on, everyone.
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