Less than 12 hours to kick off of NaNoWriMo for me. At the stroke of midnight, I can type up my first paragraph, enter my word count, and crash. I was up at 4:30am (for me, that’s disgustingly early) so I could go in to work early today.
So I’m exhausted already, and its only 1 o’clock. But I have so much to do today still! I have to run some errands after work, then I have to rush home and put out our outdoor decorations for tonight (have to have the lighted pumpkins so the kids know we’re giving out goodies), pull out the boxes of chips (we give out the vending machine sized bags of chips, bought in bulk at a club store, instead of candy) and set that up for easy hand out. Then I have to send out the final schedule for the weekend volunteers with RESCUE. After that, I have to finish setting up a website. And finally I’ll get some time to do a bit more research and set up a rough outline. I have an opening scene in my head, so I can at least type that up and say I did something. Likely I’ll spend time on Saturday afternoon fleshing out the outline and the characters a bit more. I’ve just been so busy this week, with work, volunteer stuff, and doing some commissioned beadwork, that research and outlining had to take a back seat.
Let’s hope that’s not an indicator of how the writing itself will go. Best of luck to all of you participating in NaNo this year! And thanks for stopping by. Now I need to go and wash this purple ink off my hands, and get back to work (lunch break is over).
