NaNoWriMo – Day 1

It’s officially Day 1 of National Novel Writing Month. I was going to get up at 5am to work on my novel but we’ve had some lovely friends stay with us for the weekend and I ended up being up till after midnight. Rather than go to bed and have to set my alarm, I decided to start writing straight away. I’m delighted to report I’ve written 3,000 words and have finished my first scene. They’re pretty average words, (OK, VERY average words) but it’s a first draft and the goal is to get the story out, not write prize-winning prose. And that means I’ve only got 47,000 words to go. It’s looking more achievable by the minute. Check with me in a week and it might be a different story, but for now this NaNoWriMo train has left the station and is chugging along at full speed. Choo choo!