After struggling to hit my word count goal yesterday because I was busy doing New Zealand planning (which you can read about here), I needed to get back on track today.
Fortunately, Camp NaNoWriMo is organised in such a way that you can be assigned to a "cabin" of fellow writers. The cabins are there for support and general chatting - anything to ease the month along. My cabinmates have turned out to be a lovely bunch.
I've found word sprints to be useful in the past - just sitting down for 10, 15, 20 minutes and rattling off as much as I can without thinking about corrections or editing. Doing a series of them seems to increase my writing speed without having too much impact on the quality of my writing, so they've been great when I lacked the motivation to write. The @NaNoWordSprints account on Twitter pretty much pulled me through those days of NaNoWriMo when I just couldn't get myself to focus.
Earlier this evening I suggested the idea of doing word sprints in the cabin. A few of my cabinmates got into this idea and it's really helped my word count today. We've also been able to just chat about random things, like football (actual football, not American football) and the unfortunate time differences between me and most of the other folks in my cabin. I didn't realise just how much being able to chat to other writers might help with my own writing. Not so much with the actual content, but with motivating me to get it written down in the first place.
I suppose it also helps that one of the folks read my synopsis, which I personally thought was a bit rubbish and told me it sounded amazing. How's that for a confidence booster? On top of that, we haven't even finished the first week and I've already hit 20% of my target for the month. So here's to the remainder of the month and all those words just waiting to be written.
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