So, today is day 3 of NaNoWriMo...and I am ashamed to admit I only started writing today. This evening, in fact. At 8pm. Disgraceful!!!
I had planned an entire weekend of writing bliss, confined in the space of my room accompanied only by hideous amounts of tea and chocolate. I imagined myself writing so fast only a blur of movement and steam would be seen around my keyboard. People would come from far and wide to admire the 'girl who cant stop writing'.
Do you know what I actually did with my weekend? I got hideously drunk with Boyo on Friday celebrating Halloween. On Saturday we slept all morning, then drove around in horrible traffic attempting to get to the shops and failing miserably, and deciding instead to go for dinner. Then I went home and slept while Boyo went to a party - only for sleep to be interrupted at 3am when Boyo wanted me to come and get him. Sunday, we went to see James Bond, then watched crappy telly and ate chinese food until we went to bed.
I wrote absolutely zero words. Balls.
Today, I went back to work. At 8am this morning I was wide eyed and bushy tailed, attacking the mountain of work that has accumulated in my two weeks off with the ferocious motivation that I should have applied to writing over the weekend.
So, after work, and after a meeting at The Club to discuss this months rota, I came home, made dinner, and then sat down and started. Thats always the hard part!! Starting NaNo every year is always my very very very least favourite part of the competition. Its so hard to just let stuff flow out onto the page the way that Mr Baty encourages you to do. You want so desperately to re-read, re-write, re-think everything that you have just written - which is exactly what you are not supposed to do. DO NOT edit this stuff. Just let it leave your brain at 80mph, and hit the page with such a force that your characters explode into life, and don't look back. It may be messy, but who cares. You have a whole 11 months to go back and clear it up afterwards.
So, I managed an unimpressive 1,860 words this evening. Its not much, and its certainly nowhere near the word count I wanted to be on at the end of day 3.
But. Its a start.
Ooh. And. Please see horrifically scary me in halloween make up below :)
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