November has traditionally been National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). Although the nonprofit that originally promoted the concept shut down, the community is still alive.
I have never taken part in NaNoWriMo or anything similar before. I want to take part this year to write a memoir. I will provide updates on my progress throughout.
Resolves to the total number of words I write for this project between 19th October and 4am on the 1st of December, my timezone (UTC+0).
I will not bet on this market. I will not add more options to this market unless there's a very compelling reason (I will never split out the 60k+ option into more bins). This is my first market so feel free to make suggestions for improvement!
Word target
I have not set myself a specific word target yet. The plan is to see how writing goes for a few days then set a formal target.
The traditional target is 50k words, or 1667 words/day, but I've noticed from early trials that this is causing me to pad out my writing / write fluff to increase my word count. I want to set a target that will be challenging but also make me feel good about the quantity/quality balance I'm striking.
Total words as of 1st November: 1389
Log:
(Includes some writing I did in October as a test run / prep for this project)
19th October: ~850 words
30th October: ~100 words
1st November: 410 words
1,000Update: I wrote 410 words yesterday. I was going to write more in the evening but then my friend suggested that we watch a film and I said yes. This is going great so far 😂
I have more free time today so I will try to make up for yesterday. Had a good writing session in a cafe but I must now stop to go do something else for a few hours.