Day 1
The midnight kickoff went well in some ways. I got my word count for the day and then some within an hour and a half of writing (I was the first one out of the whole group to meet the word count), however it’s pretty crappy writing. Much of it was simply because I am very sleepy and I’m not quite as creative when I’m this tired. There is a lot of repetition and some of it doesn’t make sense. I know, the whole point is to just get it down, but I did much better writing than this last year.
On a funny note… we had several people approach us at the restaurant asking what we were doing. One person asked if we were playing WOW, and another asked if we were playing Battleship. It made us wonder if this is a common phenomenon. I mean, seriously, are WOW people so hard up that they’d wander into an IHOP at midnight just to play in a group?
Back to writing… What worries me the most, is that I realized about a half hour into it that I may not have enough plot to flesh this out to a full 50,000 words. I don’t hate the story, it just doesn’t have anything to offer. I suppose that after sleeping on it, I may come up with something useable, so I’m not giving it up yet.
Speaking of sleep, I’m going to go get some of that.
Day 1 Word Count: 1763 (Goal: 1667)
