Day -1 (Day 0?)

NaNo starts tomorrow! Woo! I've got most of my outline done, and I have a fancy schmancy little calendar printed out to write down my word counts. I saw Dracula today and I'm going trick or treating in an hour, so I'll have plenty of candy, and therefore sugar-induced energy, for the next three weeks. Boo-yah.

Day -2

NaNo starts in two days! Woo! And Halloween is tomorrow, meaning I'll have plenty of sugary candy to keep my energy up when I inevitably stay up at all hours of the morning to get 1667 words! Woo!

I have to finish my book today so that I don't let myself stop writing to finish it during November. I plan on reading Goosebumps during November, because those are incredibly short and don't have too much of a plot to think about. I have a whole box of them from my elementary school years.

Woo!

Day -3

So it's the 29th, meaning WriMo begins in about 3 days. The panic I've heard so much about is just now hitting me. I've recently cleared out my iPod of any music that could be distracting, and left it with 3 songs (two by the lovely live2tivo on YouTube and then the Nanowrimo Song by All Caps) about WriMo and a bunch of classical music. I have a notebook and folder with WriMo flyers stapled onto them, and a binder filled with the incredibly useful NaNo for the New and the Insane by Lazette Gifford (http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/3699440) which ate up 3/4 of my black ink.

And I have a basic plot (though I've been told that plots go out the window November 1st anyway, so the last 29 days of my frantic planning may have been in vain...) that I rather like. I think I'm rather ready.

I'm also having an argument with myself over which font to use for the site. I live of of Arial on just about everything I do, but I kind of like Courier as well. It has that typewriter kind of look to it, I guess, which really matches the whole theme of writing. If anyone has opinions, I'd love to hear them.

Anyway, thanks for reading this blog, and if you've done NaNoWriMo in previous years, I'm all ears for any tips.