Yay! First day of NaNo! And I'm already at 5K! Of course, most of those 5,000 words are absolute rubbish, which I wrote during the heat of two Word Wars.

I had my first Word Wars today. I won the first one I was in, and came in second for the last. It's great fun, gets your word count up, and makes you write some really unintelligible sentences. XD

~Riella

...I couldn't not do it. I'm just not really planning on finishing it before November. Anyways I'm at 335 words. Yeah.

I wrote out the opening scene of the novel, plus an epigraph and an author's note. It totaled a little less than 1700 words, and though I know I should get as far ahead as possible, I am stopping there for the day. Congrats to those who have made their goals for today and keep going to those who haven't yet!

Well, I ended up being able to write today. I hand wrote about 500 words during Geology class because it was boring. I forgot to bring my laptop otherwise I would have typed it. I've got 1,798 words and I'm quitting for today. I could keep going but I am just fried. I'm really anxious about a talk I need to have with someone tonight and on top of that, because I was stressing about it, I didn't sleep well at all last night and as a result, napped for 30 minutes in between two of my classes today which are an hour apart which meant I didn't get to eat lunch so I'm starving and I'm still a little bit stressed and anxious although it's much better than it was this morning.

I'm quite surprised that I actually made the minimum word count! I really really hope the rest of November isn't as stressful as this first day has been.

I have 0 words. I have not got a chance to sketch out my basic plan and start writing today, so I might handwrite a few pages before going to bed I guess. Agh.

It's fun to watch y'all's posts in here. Awesome job, everyone!

1,271 words. Must...keep...writing!
And now that I've found out that I can talk about hawks living in Northern England and read a few posts from you guys, I guess I don't have any more excuses to keep delaying the other 729 words I want to get done today...back to work!

Thanks for all the welcomes!

I have found writing to be therapeutic, that's why I decided to try this.

I was feeling bad because I'm only at 2400 words--I was hoping to get to 3000 today. Reading the email they sent with trying to write 5000 words each day this weekend, I thought maybe I was not doing so well with the start. But, I hate to say it, reading here made me feel better. to all!!!

I just hope that having expectations won't hamper my writing.

I'm at 8000 words, but I'm in a boat with Shadowlander; I had 7000 words prewritten (hey, I'm a rebel this year. I'm living it up!)

I'm not as interested in making a high wordcount as I am in writing something good. I don't expect to make near what I've made in the past, because I'm erasing half of what I write. I spent hours on chapter 3 today rearranging paragraphs and selecting proper verbs...

Yeah this November won't be as adrenaline-packed as it normally is.

*takes Bella's hand and sighs* You and me both. 0 words. >.<

But hey, I knew this would happen. I've been cleaning/unpacking/working-on-absolutely-necessary-stuff-online all day. Ah, the joys of moving at the start of Nov...

I was feeling bad because I'm only at 2400 words--I was hoping to get to 3000 today.

Don't! I only have half of that... 1,161 to be exact. You can make it Ram! Actually I was amazed I even managed to hit 1,000 today, here's to another 1,500 tomorrow!

(PS my word count on the site isn't up to date because they were doing maintenance... I will try to update it tomorrow.)

Okay, it's after twelve, so I'm clocking in at 5,801 words and calling it a night. I am exhausted. Not sure if crashing has to do with writing so much, or the fact that I was fueling my brain with candy corn all day. . . I think I shall have to do further testing before reaching a verdict on this phenomenon.

It's been a great first day overall. I've actually been relatively pleased with most of what I've written, which I did not expect, especially at these numbers. But everything was really flowing today, and I just didn't want to stop writing. It was awesome.

All of today's words (minus the 500+ words I wrote in the wee hours of the morning for my Snow-White and Rose-Red retelling) made up the first chapter of my sci-fantasy novel, which I'm making up as I go along, and am totally loving the way it's coming so far.

I've loved reading this thread over the course of today; you all are doing amazing, and keep at it! It's going to be a real privilege to spend the rest of the month writing with you guys.

I've reached my stopping point for the night as well. I got 7K done! I can't wait to see how much I can write tomorrow.

~Riella

I'm at 6,000 words now. I can only really write in the mornings when I get home, but amazingly once I get going the words just start flowing out of my brain almost on their own. My main character hasn't even gotten out of the facility yet and I've still got chapters more to go!

...of my sci-fantasy novel...

That's all you need to say to make me want to read it- So can I read it someday?.

I'm aiming for 1,600 words today (not counting the 800+/- that I wrote after midnight last night.)

*clasps Lady C's hand with eyes a-shine, although it is sad that we're both at 0* I'm not alone! I hope you get more words today!!

I think I'll get more writing time today. I have to finish I book I /really/ wanted and try write, but maybe I'll resort to getting my pre-written words and be a rebel.... We'll see. I feel like such an underachiever: making the choice between genres at the last minute while some of y'all have everything neatly outlined and are writing away. xD

I'm scared to go on NaNoWriMo and see some really, really zealous people who got like 25k the first day and a half. O.O