NaNoWriMo: A rough start
So I did get started, and my first half-hour actually went pretty well. Wrote 637 words, and at that rate, I'm looking at less than 40 hours to write my entire novel. An hour and twenty minutes a day? Barring getting stuck, that's pretty doable.
But I didn't get more than a half-hour… I was so wiped out yesterday that I never got back to writing. Don't know what it was, but I seem to be pretty much over that. Except this morning, I woke up with a pulled muscle under my right shoulder-blade. Hurt like [amazingly bad words I don't allow myself to write here]. (Apparently I used improper lifting posture while carrying 50-pounds bags of duck feed.) I couldn't find a position that didn't hurt, and typing was really out of the question.
I called in sick… I'm a computer programmer, and that requires typing all day long. That sucks, and then it sucks for NaNoWriMo… already "in the hole" for not hitting 1667 words on the first, and I didn't do any more writing after that. Missed my first write-in, too.
So, day three, and I begin by owing 4364 words for the day. This is exactly the kind of start I need to encourage me to call a misdeal and throw in the towel. But I can push through this… my daily word goal only jumps to 1763, an extra 100 words a day. I can do that.