Week 2 Recap

Week two didn't go as well as I'd hoped. Thursday was good, but Friday we had to pick my husband's co-worker up from the hospital. Between picking up his prescription and taking him home, we didn't get to dinner until 7:30 and I wasn't able to start writing until around 9:00. Saturday wasn't much better. I went in to work in the morning, and took a trip downtown to the Bite of Zupan's, a free event where you get to sample all sorts of yummy stuff. The line was long, but it was really worth it.

However, it meant I didn't get home until 4:00, just in time to spend about an hour writing before I had to run off for my Shadowrun game. Between the two days, I wrote about 1,600 words total, which knocked me off track. On the other hand, I managed to stay on track for 9 whole days...

So now back to playing catch up.

The First Week

As the first week of Nano draws to a close, here's a brief recap:

I started the month off by attending a midnight write-in and took the 1st off. That gave me a 2,000+ word day. The next day wasn't so hot.

Saturday, I had a 2,000+ word day, thanks to a trip to the Dalles (about an hour from our place). We spent the night because my husband was playing in a disc golf tournament the next day. Though my research showed there weren't any restaurants or coffee shops really close to the park, I chose not to have faith in the internet and believed it was simply a lack of information.

Turns out, the park is high up on a hill (and offers some really awesome views) in the middle of a residential zone. The internet told me of a tea parlor downtown, but of course, it wasn't open on Sunday. That left a Burgerville and a coffee shop. I didn't like the vibe of the coffee shop, and wasn't hungry enough to want to hang at the Burgerville, so I bought lunch and took it back to the park. Because I didn't have electricity to power the lap-top, I had to take a few breaks, and also took a short cat nap. Between spending the whole day at the park and driving home, I had a a record-breaking 3,000+ word day.

When the weekdays arrived, I of course haven't written nearly as much, but I've finished off the week with 1,000+ days, each a little better than the other. Even so, thanks to the momentum, I've actually managed to stay on track (and ahead of) the 1,667 word a day goal for the entire week! I am so very excited. This is the best start I've ever had for Nanowrimo.

Now the trick is to keep it up for Thursday and Friday...until the weekend arrives again.

However, we're going out to lunch Friday for a co-worker's birthday, my son is coming down from Fort Lewis (he's an Army Ranger) for the weekend, and I have a Shadowrun game Saturday night. Plus I need to go into work. Then of course, I'm having issues with my car again. I'm going to have the battery tested. Hopefully, that's all it is.

So on to the challenges of Week 2...

On the First Day of Nano...

I began my first day of Nano in earnest at midnight, sharing my table with a first-time Nanoer who works as a cab driver. He'd bought an ancient laptop on Craigslist for $100 so he could write in his cab while waiting for fares. He left after about an hour, and I wished him good luck.

I left a half-hour later with over 716 words done, drove home and went to bed. Before my
husband left for work, he asked me to write 3,000 words and have dinner ready by the time he got home. 3,000 is more than I can typically write in a day, so I got him to agree to 2,000 and dinner ready.

When I woke up, I established that my goal was to shower, dress, do laundry and dishes and have the hamburger defrosting in the sink so I could start working by 12. I completed these goals by 10:30, which means I'm going to start at 11:00. My Rhapsody radio is fired up, and I'm ready to start....

So my husband calls at 4:45 to say that he wanted to stay on the West Side and play disc golf. It was a very nice fall day (pretty rare in these parts), so I said why not. It gave me more time to get dinner ready. Turns out I'd need it because we were out of spaghetti. But I'd already met my goal, and had over 2,000 words completed. :)

It is now about 9:30. I'm pretty tired, so I think I'll turn in as soon as ER is over.