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This would be my fourth NaNo (fifth if you include Camp) since the first time I won.

Usually I struggle to get a thousand words in a little over an hour.

My first session, on November 1, I got 1667 words (exactly!) in 50 minutes.

I'm stunned.

Granted, practice helps. I've spent a lot of time over the past 4-5 years working through techniques and tactics and learning how I write.

But the most hopeful thing, to me, is that I'm not bored. A lot of times if I reach a certain low level of mastery or understanding of a topic or field, then I just... stop. I'm just not interested in it anymore. It gets boring. I am done with what I came to see.

Here, it feels like I still have a long ways to go before I get bored. And I really, really like that.

The current novel is the sequel to the Perdita story. I am hoping I can get this one to the 75-85k word range. If I can do that during Nano, that would be even better.

If I work out the next step, I should get another writing session or two in today--which will get me to 10k in the first weekend. That's... never something I expected to happen.

day 3, 3056

As frustrating as it is that I am writing about 1k words a day... well, it's 1k words a day! I should be less cranky about it.

day 3: 1867

some tonight, some longhand during the day.

longhand is slow. Slower than I remembered even.

Day Three, 5280

Yeah I know, I should be at 10% after three days.

Still feels kinda cool though, to see ten percent done, woo-hoo!

notes: usually things start going faster around 1100 words.

today was an hour; yesterday was two hours; monday was an hour and a half.

I'm really trying to focus right now on not editing, striking out changes rather than editing them, and letting things, well, suck.

edited to say: just edited my 2007 posts to also be tagged with the day number (day 1, day 2, etc.)

Day Three, 5344

Last night was interesting. I took my laptop to see Lyle play, and worked on it there.

Wasn't as easy as I had hoped. It was a little bit difficult to work there, and by the time I got home I was so tired it took me forever to get my word count.

I'm starting to worry that I will run out of ideas. I really feel like I shouldn't be finishing this part of the arc so quickly. But maybe so.

At any rate, I'm not that far ahead on my count... only about 340 words... and I added in 500 words that I had written previously which I'm not sure really count. Still I'm about done for the night.