This would be my fourth NaNo (fifth if you include Camp) since the first time I won.
Usually I struggle to get a thousand words in a little over an hour.
My first session, on November 1, I got 1667 words (exactly!) in 50 minutes.
I’m stunned.
Granted, practice helps. I’ve spent a lot of time over the past 4-5 years working through techniques and tactics and learning how I write.
But the most hopeful thing, to me, is that I’m not bored. A lot of times if I reach a certain low level of mastery or understanding of a topic or field, then I just… stop. I’m just not interested in it anymore. It gets boring. I am done with what I came to see.
Here, it feels like I still have a long ways to go before I get bored. And I really, really like that.
The current novel is the sequel to the Perdita story. I am hoping I can get this one to the 75-85k word range. If I can do that during Nano, that would be even better.
If I work out the next step, I should get another writing session or two in today–which will get me to 10k in the first weekend. That’s… never something I expected to happen.