NaNoWriMo 2018 - Week 1 -OMG! HERE WE GO!

Ah, week one.
When the ideas are flowing like water from a faucet, the hands are fresh, and everything is rosy!
If you're going for that baseline win , it's a minimum of 1667 words a day. That's about 12000 a week.

Anyone stay up at midnight to start as we turned to November? How's the word count going?

Let's go Team! *shakes pom poms*

*playing theme from Rocky*

Rah. Rah.

*bangs head against wall*

Hoping my ideas will start soon cos at the moment it's pure torture. Really at a loss this year but don't want to give up.

>4 BekkaJo: What's the premise? Who are the characters? What's the scene?
Maybe start by writing out the basics like this, and see if this triggers any thoughts. Even just a description of each character, looks, personality, identifying quirks, and you'll find a story hidden there. Nothing says the crazy thinking paragraphs have to stay. This is a first draft! :)

>4 BekkaJo: Your character is standing at the edge of a cliff.
Who is she?
Why is she there?
How did she get there?
Flashbacks, flashbacks
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>5 gilroy: Thank you for the support - it's an unusual mess this year. Everything still very fluid and none of them want to define themselves...

>6 mamzel: LOL - I'll try a cliff edge.

That said, the word count is not great. My son and I have had a nasty stomach bug which is definitely adding to my stress. I know I need to just relax and, if I don't finish, it's not the end of the world. But I want to!

>5 gilroy: I remember trying to write one year and they offered a device that suggested a plot twist each day. One day it said that something unusual happened to my character. I had him try to cross a street and getting hit by a car. Presto - new setting (hospital), new characters (doctors, etc.), etc.

I have some cool dice somewhere too - roll and use the result to change the story. Problem is that my kids were playing with them and now I can't find them...

Siri or Google Assistant will give you random dice rolls, even different size dies. :)

I'm doing NaNo this year, but as a rebel. I started out all proper, with a fresh new story idea. On Day 4, I realized that it was making me stressed and unhappy, so I gave myself permission to write on any project, new or existing (only counting words written during NaNo, of course). What I want to get out of NaNo this year is a return to the habit of writing, so my personal goal is to update my word count every day. I'd like to hit 50k, but I'm trying not to get hung up on that.

>11 foggidawn: That is a great goal - I hate that after November I tend to just stop :/