I went to the AdelNaNo Write-In at the SA Writer's Centre on Rundle Street yesterday, with the expectation that there wouldn't be an actual lot of writing being done, what with the talking, and the giggling, and the whlaven-flaven...! (sorry, a bit of Professor Frink coming out there.) And being my only opportunity to do anything productive towards my NaNo that day, given I was going out later on at night, I didn't like my chances of recovering the ground I'd lost over the last couple of days.
But actually, there was a whole heap of writing being done - the more collaborative environment didn't bear down on some of us, myself included, who just plodded along doing their own thing and let the swirls of conversation wash over us, relishing the Word Wars when everyone would go silent and all you could hear was the sound of people typing on laptops to try and smash out as many words as they could in ten minutes. In the three hours that I was there, I doubled my word count, writing a total of 3,063 new words (but whether any of them are any good is a question best pondered later, perhaps in December).
I left the SA Writer's Centre (as it happens it was the first time I'd ever been there, but what a great place! Check out http://www.sawc.org.au/index.php) pretty chuffed with my day's work, having arrived at a place in my story I knew I could write and write for over the next day or so.
Part 2 - Sunday:
Spent the day with friends holding dog-races in their swimming pool, making the most of what was mostly good, summerish weather. Piked and came home early to try and get some work done, but really have only smashed out close to 2k in the last two-three hours; rediscovering an album I haven't heard for about ten years making the job in parts a lot easier, but whenever I got to a good bit in a song, I just had to take a break and do some air-musicianing...
So the ultimate word count for tonight, and this weekend - agonizingly short of the goal for today, which was 6,668 (only 187 off the target! But it's getting so close to midnight, and bedtime...)
But at least it's 187 words, and not 1,870 words, putting myself another day's worth behind on my work. Tomorrow after training I'll have a bit of smashing to do to try and stay on track, but I'm getting close to a good bit in the story, a bit of a reveal and the beginning of the drama, so hopefully that will get me going and, maybe, over the target count for the first time...!
Don't forget: http://www.nanowrimo.org/
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