Nanowrimo!!

We're on day 3 of NaNo and I'm at 2,715 words - most of them written today.

I'm a "plotter" (versus a "pantser" - someone who writes by the seat of their pants without doing a lot of plotting). Typically I do several things to get to know my characters - character g/m/c grid, back story and 'interviews', etc as well as a pretty extensive outline. I've found that when I think about my plot points and what needs to happen in order to get the characters to that plot point, writing is easier. It keeps me focused. I also tend to edit as I go along - rather than just putting down a word, I'll stop and look in the word finder or other reference book or jump on the Internet to verify a piece of information. I find this easier than cranking out the story and then going back to clean it up. Just feels more efficient and better to me.

But to each his own.

At any rate, the goal of Nano is to write 50,000 words in a month. I'm finding that in order to crank out the words I'm writing scenes that I'll put together later - next month - rather than my usual approach of starting at the beginning and working my way through the end.

We'll see how this works out. At first I felt disoriented but seeing the word count crank up got me inspired so I'm ready to keep going.

Go Nano!