1037 words today. 9815 total.
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Author: Christopher A. Kess
Writer, et. al.
1371 words. 8778 total at this point.
1290 words today. Started late again. Long day. I was tired and I was writing about theatre and representation in other media and it’s probably too heavy a subject to be writing about on a Friday night after a long week. I struggled to get to 1290 and after a couple of hours, I figured it wasn’t going to get any better. I decided to be OK with today’s output, get some rest, do what I have to do tomorrow, and then come back strong again in the afternoon or evening. In previous years, I might have decided I had to get past 2000 words, as I had the past couple of days, or at least to 1667. But this time around, I let myself off the hook for the night. NaNo isn’t a sprint and it’s perfectly fine to have leaner days behind the word processor. I can make up for today down the line, should I need to. Hey, I should be a writing coach.
Day 2 did not go nearly as smoothly as Day 1 did, but I got a good chunk of writing done.
I was not planning on doing NaNoWriMo this year, but I got talked into it. I’m working on a few plays right now, with more I want to work on once I get some drafts done of the ones I’m already working on, so writing a novel this month wasn’t in the plans. But, since my writing outside of my drama has been suffering some lately, I let myself be persuaded to participate.
AOL was not the Internet. In the early days, the late 80’s and early 90’s, they sold it to you as such, but it wasn’t. You could get access to Usenet, and eventually to the larger Internet, but that’s another story. Still, using the online service could be a fun experience and perhaps no part of the service outside of the iconic “You’ve Got Mail” sound was more popular than IM. Before there were Twitter followers and Facebook “friends,” if you were on AOL, you had your buddy list. Unless you used IRC or ICQ, bulletin boards, or some type of instant chat via a Unix system, chances are, you used AOL. If you weren’t a techie, you almost certainly used AOL.
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