I met Tim Dorsey at his presentation at the Bartow Public Library last week. I mentioned to him the thing about NaNoWriMo, that it's writing a novel up to 50,000 words within 30 days.
Dorsey mentioned that his Serge A Storms book Orange Crush - his third - was 80,000 words and he finished it in 40 days. That's roughly 2000 words a day, close to the amount needed to do NaNo (1667) in 30 days. Heck, writing 2000 words is easy to do during a Write-In event, those events tend to last 2 hours. That's 2 hours in a day. And there's more than 2 hours in a day a writer can find the time to write.
Doing NaNo is an easy thing to do, as long as you prepare yourself to write. Planning out the days you're going to be able to find the time. Planning out the rough narrative / outline of your work. Knowing your characters before you write them. These are all the easy steps you can be doing right now before logging in to www.nanowrimo.org to get set... ready... WRITE!
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