More About NaNoWriMo

Posted by Colin Harvey Nov 8, 2009

The official objective for the National Noverl Writing Month is 50,000 words for the month. That's an average of 1667 words per day.

However, there are 10 days in November when I will have much less time because I have to work, or have full days at uni (or both), so I'm aiming for half-quantities on those full days.

I'm aiming for 60,000 words for the month for my work in progress to go with the the 4,000 words already written, so for each of those 'full' days I'll be looking to write 1200 words, which is a challenging target, but for each day at weekends and when I have short days at university, I'll be looking to write 2,400 words on each of those days.

And this weekend I've just about managed to write 2400 words per day for the last couple of days.

On the downside, it's ripped the heart out of the day, which at this time of year is pretty short. By the time we get home from walking the dog it's close to mid-day, and 4 or 5 hours writing means that it's nearly dark by the time I've finished.

But at least it's done. Time to go and live in the real world for a couple of hours.

Even if it is a rather dark real world.