NaNoWriMo Begins!

I’m four days into the NaNoWriMo challenge and all is going well so far.  I’m a little over 5,000 words on the book which I’m tentatively calling, Flesheaters and Bloodsuckers Anonymous.  I should be over 6,000 words by the end of the day.  I know I should have updated my word count at the NaNo website but was having a little trouble logging in.  Their servers must be swamped!

I’ll post a few longer excerpts when I get the time on here.  For now I’ll be posting little quotes at the Nano page.

Already I can tell that the opening paragraphs are going to need a rewrite, my main character isn’t funny and everyone is going to need a new name.  However, in good faith to the NaNoWriMo challenge I am resisting the urge to edit, just to see how far I can get in the book.  This is the time I take a dump on the page, let it all out, have writerly diarrhea and so on and so forth.  

Many strange feelings are also popping up right now.  I’m starting to wonder if I can really reach the 50,000 words by the end of the month that so many others have attempted and completed.  Can I really finish off this mammoth project in such a short period of time?  Where did my favorite tan cargo pants go?

It’s really interesting.  I’m experiencing some fairly new emotions and taking on a new kind of project.  I did write a book once and completed it a few years ago. Not published, but valuable experience.  The book also took about six years to write. Ha!  Hopefully, NaNoWriMo will get this next book done a lot faster.