I know this is only day three and there is a long way to go, but I can't wait to get home every evening from work, get all my other chores out of the way, and sit down for a couple of hours of reckless banging on the keys. On my first night, I wrote for a little over two hours and managed to get 2345 words down. On day two, I chalked up another 2478 for a grand total of 4823. Once I hit my stride I can usually write about 1000 - 1200 words in an hour. (Both nights I spent approximately 2 hours and twenty minutes total.) My goal is to write 2000 words per day, which should allow me some 'grace' should I need to skip a day. So far, so good!
Something else very cool happened since NaNo started. I got a call at work on Tuesday from CBC radio asking if they could interview me during their morning show the next day in regard to National Novel Writing Month. I had been on the show once before in June, promoting my book MY MOTHER THE MAN-EATER, and so I guess host Carolina DeRyk recognized my name among the many others registered and thought she'd give me a call. It was fun (and I'm still trying to get a hold of a link ...)
Briefly, my project is about some Czech hockey players who decide to defect during the 80's, before the fall of the Iron Curtain. I had been thinking about the idea for some time and then one day I was describing it to my son (who is an avid hockey fan) and he told me a fascinating true story about the Stastny brothers, the first Eastern European hockey players to defect in order to play in the NHL. I immediately got excited, and after quite a bit of research, I felt I'd like to use this idea for my NaNo project. Of course, my story will be purely fiction, but I do plan to reference some of the info I gathered.
6 comments:
Go girl! I caught up today, 4000+ wordsthis afternoon. NaNo is awesome!
Cheering you on, too, Niki! I finished my writing for today and I'm up to 7136!!!
Yahhhhh... be inspired.... cheering you on from the side lines! (Since there's no novel in the works around this computer)....
Oh neat! Do you have a permanent link to the CBC show? That sounds really exciting!
I can't seem to get one as yet and as far as I know Carolina's show is not available as a podcast ... :(
Good for you!
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