NaNoWriMo — How’s It Going for You?

I’m facing a unique dynamic with this month’s NaNoWriMo …

Specifically, with the write-as-much-as-you-possibly-can-and-think-about-it-later approach to writing a novel.

In the past, my approach has been to make progress with the goal of 50,000 words in 30 days by writing when inspired with a certain scene or dialogue.

My NaNoWriMo usually goes something like this:

1. I’m washing dishes.

2. I start to think about the characters of one of my stories and they begin to converse in my head, or the plot thickens in some way.

3. I continue whatever I’m doing — going on to make dinner or clean the fridge or take the kids out somewhere …

4. And the scene continues to develop in my mind.

If it’s a good day, I get to the computer sometime in the evening or night and manage to remember a good portion of the dialogue or scene.

I type it up and usually hit my minimum NaNoWriMo word count of the day.

(On a not-so-good day, I forget it all by the time I manage to get to the point where I can type it up, and it’s lost to me forever.)

But this month, NaNoWriMo is turning out a little differently.