Sharp Words

Because I didn’t go out for Halloween this year, I thought I’d start writing at midnight. And I certainly wasn’t the only one. Six or seven us sat in the WriMo Ireland chat room and started off NaNoWriMo 2009 with a 10-minute word sprint. I managed 820 words in two sprints, about beating my usual first-day-writing record (I don’t typically do that well on day 1), though others managed a couple of thousand words before going to bed.

I’ve spent the day at my friend’s house though (where I was last night too), waiting to see if the flood in the road was going to get any worse, and then later, if it was going to go down again so I could go home. With not much else to do except check sandbags, take photos, and drink coffee, I got quite a lot of words done and haven’t finished yet.

So all in all, I’m feeling pretty damn good about my writing this year. And the flood’s thankfully receding.