Word count: 5082.

Another solid day of writing is behind now, so I’m just kicking back having dinner at my girlfriend’s place. She didn’t see a lot of me during NaNoWriMo last year. So while it’s still early days and I’m ahead of the word count game, I’m spending what time I can relaxing and not bearing myself up for being slack!

I’m finding that thinking about writing 2500 words in a day seems like a daunting task. I managed to do it today, but it felt like it took all day. I would have sat down at about 9am this morning to start, but it was broken up with frequent breaks to get another cup of coffee, or to chuck on the tv for half an hour or so.

But later in the afternoon, I decided that I would do it in smaller chunks. I picked 500 words… It seemed like a manageable amount. And I found that worked really well for me. I’d write 500 words, take a break then get back to it again. This would take me about 30 – 60 min, depending on what I was writing at the time.

And as I get into the main flow of NaNoWriMo, doing 1667 words can be broken into 3 sessions a day. That might be 500 words in the morning before work, another 500 at lunch, then finish it off in the evening. Sounds like a good plan…the best I have at the moment, anyway.