NaNoWriMo: Well, I suppose I should get started.
Full night's sleep (strangely very tired, though), church is over, lunch is coming up, and my son really, really wants to play Toon. And I'm contemplating getting started on my novel.
It's the first day, the day I should really be rarin' to go. And, of course, I'm intimidated by the idea of just getting started. That intimidation is why I'm doing NaNoWriMo, though.
Knowing my usual inclination, if I follow my gut, I'll put off starting any writing until after Nathan goes to bed at 9:30, then I'll struggle to get started, write about 500 words, and wonder what insanity made me commit to this and tell other people about it.
So, I have to develop a strategy around that. Lunch, then just thirty minutes of writing. No word-count goal, just thirty minutes and then I'm free to do something else, like play Toon for a couple of hours. Then another thirty minutes of writing before dinner. I know a lot of people jump in with guns blazing, but I'm going to have to ease in a bit.
Despite not forcing myself to reach a specific word-count for the first couple tentative toe-dips in the noveling water, I do want to hit the 1667 words for the day. I really want to stay ahead of the word-count, because if I start to let that slip, saying I can make it up later, it's just going to make things harder down the line.