NaNo, Day 4

It became an interesting challenge, beginning the NaNoWriMo contest while still on vacation in Maui. In fact, day 2 very nearly became a big red ZERO on my word counter due to an all day snorkeling trip to Lana’i and Molokini. We arrived back at the condo at a little after 4pm (Hawai’i time, equates to 7pm PST), but so exhausted from the snorkeling, I let myself have some veg time on the couch watching my favorite style of show: crime drama. After about the 2nd hour, I realized with a start that I still had to do my word count for that day! Bolting from the couch with the exclamation, the hubs quickly surrendered my laptop (he had been catching up on fantasy football for the day) and I got busy.

Thank goodness, I finished my word count with less than 30 minutes to go (before midnight, PST). I promptly went to bed, thoroughly tired.

Yesterday I had the entire, 5-hour flight to produce my word count and even a little more before the in-flight movie began, a cute Tom Hanks + Julia Roberts romantic comedy called Larry Crowne. For one who usually doesn’t care for romantic comedies, I recommend this one. A tale of redefinition and relationship building… but I digress. Unfortunately, we didn’t land at Sea-Tac until 5 minutes before midnight, and I was unable to get to an internet connection until well after that. So, all word count widgets will show that I did not produce the 2,431 words on Day 3 but as part of Day 4.

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Ah well. At least I am not behind on where I should be, but right on target. One of these days I will take my two weeks of vacation when NaNo begins and get the entire 50,000 words done in those 2 weeks. But for right now, I will content myself with producing the new novel that is Searching for Sara, even though much of that will likely be revised and edited come December (or January, since I need to have Of Damsels and Dragons ready for release in Q1 as well as Silver and Iron).

Writing is writing, and I’m glad to be getting that done.