leb die sekunde!

Today has been pretty freaking fantastic.

Probably my best day so far in NaNoWriMo, this year or last.  Actually, it most definitely was my best.  I will sleep incredibly well tonight and spend almost all of tomorrow plotting, since only a little bit of writing's needed.  Actually, none would be needed for 2 days if I was sticking to the 50k goal, but from almost day one, this story has been yelling at me that it wants to be 70k words, so I guess it's my job to give it what it wants.

So, besides finishing the 2,090 word chapter one today, I also finished the 2,919 word chapter two today.  I sense a pattern in my word counts.  Anyway, that leaves 8 words that are the title to chapter three.

Which gives me a final day one word count of.... drumroll... 5,017 words.  Which is just so incredible, I can't comprehend it.

The spreadsheet that I'm using to keep track tells me that I'm 10% complete with a 50k word novel, because I haven't adjusted it to 70k yet, and I may never.  Or at least not even think about it until I can plot further than the chapter I'm going to be writing tomorrow.

Anyway, with Tokio Hotel and The Hush Sound, along with Sing It Loud and 30 Seconds To Mars for the final portion of my writing today, it's been a great day in all aspects of NaNo, especially candy, but not particularly in the respects of the NaNo site loading.

I can't recall what part of November it was before they started slowing to manageable last year either, eh.

I got my first Chris Baty, encouraging email today.

And I have submitted a voice clip to WriMoRadio, which I'll probably do every week this year.

we're going to runrunrun all ten blocks!

So, I've now finished chapter one with a total of 2,090 words, and I'm actually pretty impressed that it's generally good writing.

For the next while, I'm just going to keep plotting ahead, and then later I'll think about adding to my current word count of 2,567 words.  Of course, 477 of those words being the beginning of chapter 2.

Music so far today: two albums by The Matches, and "Schrei" album by Tokio Hotel.

Nursing the last few sips of the Monster drink I started with.

Breaks are good.

Being ahead is amazing.

Already 900 ahead of 1667-ers.

we'll live forever and they will write a novel about our love.

Despite how "ohmygodreally, I'm sotired, I justwannapassouttt" tired I was last night, I managed to stick it out until midnight, and then fourty-three more minutes past.

In that 43 minutes, I wrote my first 1,003 words of the still incomplete chapter one.

I did the whole thing while listening to Tokio Hotel's "Schrei" album all the way through.

Starting to establish my background music for this year.

I'm going to write more a little later on, when I can bring myself to.

Today's goal is going to be around 2k.

I'm working with everything from a spreadsheet to paper records, and all.  It's overwhelming, but it's more to ensconce myself in to keep focused.

Last night I opened the ceremonial NaNoWriMo air freshener, and exercised the first of my writing totems, the music-player armband.  Because HeyChris always listens to his iPod when he runs, and you know that motherfucker has to have used an armband.  For real.

Anyway, if I remember right, I also have a hoodie for cold days, a stuffed dog named Gut-Z after Chris, my Chadam paperweight, a white Fender pick, and my pageboy hat.

It's going to be one hell of a messy month.

Will update later today with final daily totals.