At this point, I’m beginning to wonder if this was really a smart thing to do. Having signed up for NaNoWriMo six days late, I now have only 22 more days to complete a 50,000 word novel. Well, novella, technically, but as they say on the Nano website, “novel” sounds much more impressive. As you can see by the word count meter on the right, I’m only at about 6,000 words, and my calculator tells me that I need just about 2,000 words per day if I want to reach my goal. It’s not impossible, certainly, but… can I do that and still have some semblance of a plot?
So far I’ve reached my daily quota, but barely, and the I’m hatching the story right off the top of my head, so I absolutely guarantee that this one’s going to be a stinker. But then, at the end of all this, I can boast that I have written a novel. A really painfully, vomit-inducing novel that’s at the same time guaranteed to be the best novel that you have ever read by a guy named “Cubey”.
Break time. I’ll see if I can squeeze out another 2,000 poopie words tomorrow.