The best-laid plans...

Following on from my previous post, I'm totally going for NaNoWriMo this year and I think I can make it. If you break it down, 50,000 words in one month is only 1,667 words a day and I think I can do that in about three hours. I've been know to churn out 750 words in half an hour, but that was a totally disjointed stream-of-consciousness splurge that I probably wouldn't be able to keep up for any sustained length of time.

 

I know that if I just try to wing it and write "whenever I get the chance", I'm never going to find the time. Therefore I've been incredibly geeky and practical and put together a daily schedule for the month of November to make sure I get enough writing time in each day and still get enough sleep as well. By getting up an hour earlier every morning, writing while I commute and writing some more during my lunch break, I can squeeze in a respectable three hours a day before I get home from work. The rest of the evening is then mine to have dinner and relax in guilt-free bliss until I hit the hay.

 

That's the plan, in any case. Time will tell if I can actually stick to it.