NaNo Day 1: the road to 5k

So today turned out to be not the rainy, grey depression that was predicted, but a nice sunny morning that gave me the opportunity to actually do some stuff in the garden. This meant I started my NaNo'ing a bit later than I'd planned, but I still made it to 4,737 words before my head turned to mush and I had to stop. Which, as always,  happened quite suddenly but also quite completely.

That I actually almost reached 5k on the first day is pretty unexpected (despite setting my goal there) as I didn't have as clear an image of what I was going to write as other years. This may sound strange since I'm working with my plotting board, but the first card simply said 'character lies in bed reminiscing about the past'. Which is what she did for the first 3,500 words, but to actually spend that many words writing about not really that much happening without it being one big chunk of exposition is not that easy. So I'm glad I pulled that off, and I was also glad when I could actually move over to the second of my main plot points for this chapter. I stopped writing in the middle of that, because I already know where it is going to go and that gives me a quicker start next time (something I learned the hard way on some earlier NaNo years; always stop in a place you still know where you're working towards).
So NaNoWriMo is off to a good start on a quiet Sunday afternoon. Let's see if this holds up on a much busier Monday!