I got my first batch of writing in today. I managed to hack together 742 words over my lunch break. It’s pretty awful, but then, it’s not necessarily supposed to be good. It’s just supposed to be.

It’s amazing how difficult it is to write when you’re staring at a blank page. Even when you have absolutely every detail of the story mapped out ahead of time. Outlines and prose are truly two very separate things.

Let’s hope I can get another thousand words strung together this evening and keep up a 1,600 word a day average.

Yikes. 

By the way, check out my profile page (WARNING: the NaNoWriMo servers are running very slowly at the moment) to see a quick excerpt from the novel. It’s actually the very first part of the story you read.