NaNoWriMo 2016 Diary, week one
Tuesday 1st November
525 words before work, 2009 total. Introduced a couple of shady characters I didn't have planned out before I started writing. Hoping to stick to my usual rhythm of 2000 words a day. Created a Pandora station seeded with Vivaldi to use as a writing soundtrack.
Wednesday 2nd November
Good writing session before work, took my Mac laptop with me to write at lunch and after work. Wednesdays are not going to be easy for writing, I have 3 hours in Tracy's Karate in Chesterfield for my private lesson, then group class, then sparring class. Two days in a row I have written 2009 words, that is weird.
Thursday 3rd November
My novel went meta, my main character is a journalist who is brainstorming what makes a good story. No writing at lunch today, had lunch with a friend at Olympia instead. I feel like I've written a lot of filler so far but some characters are starting to devite from my original plan. That's usually a good sign so I'm letting them go with it. No evening writing today, there was beer with dinner.
Friday 4th November
Today is pay day, and a vacation day, I get to novel all day. Since I slacked off yesterday, I had to cross the 5k mark before breakfast to get level with the NaNoWriMo standard for yesterday. Working on disrupting my character's lives today. Discovering a bunch of new composers via Pandora, Georg Phillip Telemann, Francesco Geminiani, and Tomaso Albinoni. Apparently I like Baroque classical music.
Saturday 5th November
Happy Guy Fawke's Night! Today is my bimonthly knitgroup at Stone Spiral Coffee and Curios in Maplewood AND the St Charles Crooked Tree Coffee House morning write-in. I wrote at knitgroup and more at home, getting into "mess up your character's lives" day.
Sunday 6th November
Wrote after church in Kaldi's on Carondelet, starting to move the pieces on the board and get into the meat of the story. No bad guy is 100% evil, they're just people with lives and dreams who just want to take a shortcut, or make life a little easier. It's the wrong choice for the wrong reasons, but that makes it fun.
Monday 7th November
No lunchtime writing today, and I get to see the sunrise, courtesy of the end of Daylight Savings Time. I wish we'd either abolish that, or stick on it year-round. Not a great day for word count.