It's NaNo time people!  What's that some of you are bound to ask.

NaNoWriMo stands for the National Novel Writing Month.  It's a personal challenge to write a novel of a minimum length of 50,000 words in a Month.

That breaks down to 1,667 words per day.

This year, like the last 2 years, I am actively participating.

However, at the weekend I found myself travelling down to see my parents to celebrate Guy Fawkes or Bonfire night in Newick which is near Lewes in Sussex.

They know how to celebrate Bonfire Night in Sussex with each village having their own Bonfire Society and Lewes, I understand, having 6 of them.

 

Not a bad display for a tiny Sussex village: http://www.newickbonfire.com/

Because of this my start to this years NaNo was delayed somewhat and I missed a whole day of writing.  But I confess I was aware of this heading into this years month of frenetic wordsmithing.

Sunday I was when my personal NaNo started with a total of 2510 words.

Today I have wrote a further 1168 on the train journey into work this morning.

By the close of today I need to have written at least 5000 words to remain on track so still  a fair number of words to write and less time to do it in than I had on Sunday.

Don't forget I'm trying to raise funds for the NaNo project and you can sponsor my endeavours here:

https://www.classy.org/fundraise?fcid=359920

Thanks

Phil