NaNoWriMo got off to a good start today. I often don’t finish the goal of 1,666 words on the first day, because it is always difficult getting into the swing of a new story. This year should have been especially hard, since I’d only done the briefest amount of planning. But things went fairly smoothly today.

I spent two hours this morning working on plotting the main plot, discovering the characters I’d need, and writing the opening of the first chapter, getting a total of 754 words written.

This evening, I managed to complete planning the main plot, which I will share tomorrow. I also began to work on the sideplots that I discovered along the way. After half an hour of planning in my notebook, and an hour expanding my notes into Manuskript, I managed to finish Chapter 1 with a total of 1,993 words written for the day.

Now, to see if I can improve my pace, as I’ll need to write 3,035 words a day to get to 90k by the end of November.