Too Busy Writing?

I have been so busy writing, I haven't had time to blog!! Can you believe it? It is surprisingly true. On day 2 of NaNo I managed to get 2019 words and then on day 3 my expectations were not so high. Falling on a Saturday and knowing I don't spend enough time writing on the weekends I hoped to reach the halfway goal of 1000 words for each day of the weekend. Well Saturday surprised me with 1403. I even managed to accomplish some Domestic Goddess duties as well. Then Sunday became a day of relaxation for hubby and I. So alas no writing happened, instead I fulfilled my addiction of playing Mahjong while catching up with television and laundry. Of course the time change did not help me on Sunday as I woke up at 3 am unable to go back to sleep. Slept for a couple hours later in the morning and just decided to fudge the whole day and start new on Monday. So here I am ready to go!

NaNo Day 1

I did it!! I survived the first day of NaNoWriMo!! I managed to get 2028 words and could have gone on further, but I know how easily I can burnout and then not finish the month out. I always manage to do well the first day of any goal I may set, so I am celebrating small at the completion of day 1. My project for this month is my poor neglected historical romance novel. Once I decided to change my century from the 17th to the 14th I realized it would require so much work. Upon looking over some of the writing I have done over the X number of years I also realized I needed to start at the beginning and do a brand new complete first draft. Because there have been so many years that this project has been in progress my writing skills have improved, ( I hope ) and much of what I had written previously is completely unusable. So I sat down and started from the beginning and now have a completely new prologue that does a lot to introduce my female protagonist. My first chapter now includes a much more rounded and three dimensional character than before. So tomorrow I hope to jump back in and continue with my plan to write at least 2000 words for at least 26 days this month. I've given myself 4 days to fall off the writing wagon, because I know I will not be able to write full time every day this month. Well, my pot of green tea is done, my dishwasher is running and I'm ready to enjoy some brownie pudding while I put up my feet and enjoy some TV and knit.