NaNoThon & Recap

Despite my reservations about being able to keep a pace of 1,667 words per day during November, I have have more or less been keeping up. This has been encouraging, although I have been pretty worried that this means my Thanksgiving holiday will be consumed with writing. Not that I don't love to write, but family time definitely eats up a lot of my Thanksgiving holiday, so I decided to use the NaNoThon this weekend to get ahead. I had a lot of stress earlier today because during the first week of NaNoWriMo, I was able to get through the remainder of Act I by Friday afternoon. During the first 7 days of NaNoWriMo, I wrote 12,417 words. That was more than my entire word count for the whole month of October. Then, on day 8, I slacked off! I know, I should have kept the momentum I had going through the first seven days, but I definitely slacked off on Friday.

I attribute this to the fact that I had a general scene-by-scene bullet point list derived from my outline for Act I, and I more or …