Five days in – NaNoWriMo
Five days in, and I’m definitely starting to feel the difficulty of keeping up 1,667 words a day. I’m doing ok at the moment, coming in just under the guide wordcount of 6,667 for yesterday.
The Southbank meet-up was fantastic, and gave me a little peek into how surreal a concept it is that so many people around the world are all taking part in a group activity which is at its core a very individual, personal activity.
Particularly motivating was hearing about other peoples’ stories. I think I had worried a little too much that everyone else would be writing deep, intense, poetic literary fiction, or something equally serious. Refreshingly, the focus is clearly very much on writing something you would personally want to read – with all genres represented from sci-fi and camp fantasy to young adult and historical fiction.
Even more refreshingly, the variety of people attending was fairly wide – although understandably skewed slightly towards the sort of people who would be able to reach the Southbank Centre for 6pm on a work night.
There is another write-in tonight at the British Library, which I am not going to be able to make. But I hope to do plenty of writing tonight regardless, and catch up with everyone next week. Wish me luck!
You can do it!! I wish I was at more of the Central London ones… but alas, I’m not. Not on a weeknight anyway – too hard to get there after work. Next week I’m going to the British Library though! Are you going?
Since right now there’s only 3 people coming to the write-in on my east side, you should come out on Saturday and get some more writing crammed in with peeps. The three of us so far that I know are going are all quite interesting if I say so myself ;)
Lindsey/lingrem
5 Nov 09 at 5.44 PM