So, I did Nano.
The month of November has been declared
National Novel Writing Month. Sometimes called Nanowrimo…sometimes called Nano.
I have never done Nano before. I have many
years done what I call Shadow Nano…where I try to up my own production in
November in harmony with Nano. But this year, for whatever reason, I signed up.
I know people like form groups, egg each other
on…but Mary the Troubled Loner did not do this.
Maybe next year.
But I did have a very productive month. The
first week I was really steaming along. Maybe…12,000 words the first week. And
I’m jazzed. 12,000 a month, that’s 48,000 with a goal of 50K and the two extra
days November gives (four weeks is, after all, only 28 days!) I was going to
make it.
But then, like some kind of gravitational pull,
I dropped back to my usual 1000 words a day.
In the end I wrote 37,924 words in November.
That’s pretty good. I write 1000 words a day but I miss days. I always take a
few days off and I don’t regret that. It’s a baked into my goal. But for Nano, I
didn’t miss a single day in November. I wrote 30 days in a row.
So that alone made Nano worth it. I’m working
on a 75,000 word book and I had a few thousand words written before Nano
started so that book is currently at 43,461. I need 30k to finish and hopefully
I’ll be done with the book around January 1st. It’s Due February 1st.
So everything is good!
Was Nano worth it? Should Mary the Troubled
Loner have joined with others?
Have you ever done it? Does anyone here have
Nano experience?
Is there a way to get more out of it?
I think I’ll do it again. It was relatively
painless. And I did write more than usual…a bit.
So share your experience, or your curiosity.
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