Do a 'NoHuWriMo'!

(Days 1-10 total: 1341!)

Nov 11: 252 :)
Nov 12: 121
Nov 13
Nov 14: 261, to make up for missing yesterday
Nov 15: 111
Nov 16: 182
Nov 17: 191
Nov 18
Nov 19
Nov 20

As per Vex’s idea! :)

Nov 5: 0! Eeek! First ‘miss’. Evening disappeared into a foggy haze, really.

Nov 6: Urm, yeah. Ahem. Friday exhaustion!

Nov 7: I am completely slacking, and I have no excuses. Sorry, teammates – I’ll catch up!

Nov 8: Playing a bit of catch up! Managed 111 of ‘notes’ on how I view the bigger pieces being structured; 109 on a new part (character) of the story; and 286 with my original thread. Total: 506 and feeling caught up again! :)

Nov 9: 155. Really not in the mood, but realised that this tiny target of 100 words – well, it doesn’t matter that they aren’t brilliant or meaningful: it’s 10 minutes at the most and there’s something down on paper to work with later! I just wish I hadn’t half-lost my enthusiasm for my idea. Still, I’d rather stick with it through the month, and maybe try something different next month? Hmm.

Nov 10: 100 words spot on!

I’ve taken advice and stopped trying to write sequentially – I was getting bogged down in silly detail. Instead I’m trying to capture some of the moments and views of the world in my head, and it’s much more satisfying!

I still can’t believe how writer-ish this makes me feel, even just these few scribbles of an evening!

Hmm. I’m not feeling great about the waffling from the past two days – kind of lets down that ‘intriguing’ start! – but at least I’m writing. Editing can come much later! And on the plus side, there is something amazing about knowing that I spend however little bit a day, but EVERY day, doing something that’s meant so much to me for so long!

Hope it’s going well, everyone :)

...and I could have kept going! It’s a bit waffly, but I’m going… somewhere :)

I don’t think I’ll be posting everything, but here’s my start. I won’t promise there won’t be a different one before the day ends!

The day after I died I woke into a world of white. Outside the pale walls thick snow covered the landscape; within, the sheets on the bed were crisp and bleached, matching the nightwear I found myself in. The only colours in the room were the bruises I still sported from the previous weeks.

Still. I had survived, which is more than could be said for many.

And now? Here I was, wherever here really happened to be, and this was a reality I could either die in or strive to learn from, to survive, and to go forth again into… into whatever was left back there.

Everyone up and running? Just 100 words is all it takes :)

I’ve wanted to do NaNoWriMo for aaaaages, but it never seems like an opportune November for me – mostly studying, but this year also a return to work and trying to get my life in order in general. However, Vex’s brilliant idea of crossing it with a goal to Write a hundred words a day seemed perfect!

So – NoHuWriMo: November Hundred-word Writing Month! Join me! :)