NaNo is in two days

Okay, I think I have an idea (though an old one). Still no plot, though. Maybe that's how it's supposed to be. This is a story I've been trying to write for, oh, ELEVEN years now and despite all my frantic backgrounding and spreadsheets and character studies in the meantime, no actual _story_ has ever developed. Maybe the, "it doesn't matter, just get something on the page" attitude of NaNo will finally give me a kickstart for it.

So I've been thinking about the time involved and how to fit writing into my days without taking, like, the _whole_ day. 50,000 words in 30 days requires ~ 1,667 words per day. I can type 53 words per minute, so that would be ~32 minutes of writing every day. Half an hour? I can do that!

*Just took a few online typing tests and my speed apparently ranges from 75 to 98 wpm. Huh. So I've gotten faster than I was in high school (though I'm still averaging like 5 to 8 errors per test). However, since those tests are just copying text and not composing it, maybe that's not relevant to NaNo. Also, typing tests count "words" differently so it may be apples and oranges anyway.

In any case, half an hour a day sounds like a good start. Much less intimidating than 1,667 words, not to mention 50,000.

NaNo is in two days

Okay, I think I have an idea (though an old one). Still no plot, though. Maybe that's how it's supposed to be. This is a story I've been trying to write for, oh, ELEVEN years now and despite all my frantic backgrounding and spreadsheets and character studies in the meantime, no actual _story_ has ever developed. Maybe the, "it doesn't matter, just get something on the page" attitude of NaNo will finally give me a kickstart for it.

So I've been thinking about the time involved and how to fit writing into my days without taking, like, the _whole_ day. 50,000 words in 30 days requires ~ 1,667 words per day. I can type 53 words per minute, so that would be ~32 minutes of writing every day. Half an hour? I can do that!

*Just took a few online typing tests and my speed apparently ranges from 75 to 98 wpm. Huh. So I've gotten faster than I was in high school (though I'm still averaging like 5 to 8 errors per test). However, since those tests are just copying text and not composing it, maybe that's not relevant to NaNo. Also, typing tests count "words" differently so it may be apples and oranges anyway.

In any case, half an hour a day sounds like a good start. Much less intimidating than 1,667 words, not to mention 50,000.