NaNoWriMo: Day One

I’m writing this post on Halloween afternoon, while my daughters get themselves and the house ready for Trick-or-Treaters, celebrating the last day of October.

And here it is. Tomorrow is Day One of NaNoWriMo. By the time this blog is posted at 9:00 a.m., I’m hoping to have a good start on my daily word count. Stay tuned to see if I follow through with the plan.

Like Christie said in her Pep Rally Post, just starting the Game of Books Blog was an accomplishment for us. And now, we’re starting a podcast and participating in NaNoWriMo. How often do we plan things, but don’t follow through? For me, it’s more often than I’d like to admit.

Christie and I started with an idea and excitement that eventually turned into planning, and finally action. I have to give Christie a huge THANK YOU for the technical work that allowed GOB blog to come to fruition. I write a post and then push the exact buttons, so to speak, that Christie has directed. Technology, for me, is like Diane Keaton’s character in Baby Boom. I just want to turn it on and have it work. I don’t want to know any more about it. Christie makes this possible and even manages patience with me in the process.

As you they say on the NaNoWriMo website, you have 0% chance of succeeding if you don’t start, so here we go. Another adventure, another leap.

And if the plan has to change over the course of the month, I may check out the NaNoWriMo Rogues, who don’t follow any plan. But, even without a plan, following through past day one is the exciting stuff.