NaNoWriMo 2016 has started! Woo!
So last year, November 1st fell on a Sunday, giving me ample time to get a nice head start. Today, it's just a normal Tuesday, and I had to go to work like any other day, planning to start my novel some time around 6 in the afternoon. However, as the novelling gods would have it, there really was very little I could do today, and as I had been working overtime for most of October, I decided to go home early and get a nice start on my novel.
That worked out pretty nicely, with one hour of novel writing done (not counting the time making tea, answering work emails, and the like) I am now 2,327 words down. Yay! That means I've already completed the first day of writing, and am nicely on route with the second. Building up a buffer for the harder days to come has always been one of my favourite tactics.
In the end, I have decided to write in English, as this somehow felt more appropriate for the story. Apparently, it's easier to be funny in English than in Dutch. Not that I'm sure what I'm writing is actually 'funny' per se, I've put it down as fantasy (which it clearly is, even though the story doesn't really know it yet) and not 'humour' (which I'm attempting to put in, but I'm not the kind of person who laughs at her own jokes, so whether that is in any way successful will be for others to decide). In any case, writing in English is harder than I'd thought; I've looked up about a dozen words by now, some of which are so obvious I'd like to remove them from my search history without leaving a trace. But it is good practise, and I can feel myself getting faster and easier with the language as the writing goes on. By the end of November, I'll (hopefully) be a full-blown English novelist again.
Enough meta-writing for now, back to the actual novel!
ETA: I'm now at 4,808 and about finished for the day. Another successful first NaNo day!
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