NaNoWriYe: Month 1

Well, in 2006, I decided I was going to try my hand at National Novel Writing Year.

I joined the 250K club, which means I have to write 250,000 words in a year. Since PbEM posts count towards it (you are writing a story), I didn't think it would be too hard.

I was wrong. PbEM games have a habit of slowing down sometimes, especially on the weekends when people aren't around. I decided to sign up for a couple more, and have worked on characters for them, but haven't gotten the go ahead from the STs yet. Maybe I'll give up on one of them. The STs are a bit TOO controlling for my taste.

I also had more than a few days where I didn't make the goal. Ah well, things happen. Of course, I also spent the first half of the month frantically editing my Nano Novel so I could have it done in time to make the Lulu publishing deadline.

So then I started frequenting the boards and participating in the Writing Prompts and Write a Story threads. My word count started to increase a bit, so while I didn't make the goal for the month, I did manage to pull it up a bit, so I finished close to 19,000.

February's a short month, so the goal for the month is 19,208. I wasn't really all that far from it, so maybe, just maybe, I can make it.