It should be no surprise to anyone that a lot of writers will be blogging about NanoWrimo a lot at the moment. It’s pretty much the social highlight of the (aspiring) author calendar, at least for the first week in November. After that, things start to die down a little bit, as those who signed up because it sounded cool but had no real interest in putting in the hard yards to complete the challenge drift by the wayside.

For the rest of us though, we will plough on *determined face*. Remember, coffee is your friend.

November beginning on a Saturday this year has given a lot of people a special push to get going. Hopefully people were able to take advantage of some time off from their day jobs (apologies to those who have to work weekends too) to push out a few extra hundred (or maybe even thousand) words to get them going before the Monday morning blues kicked in. If so – bravo!

But what if you were one of those people who signed up and it didn’t quite go according to plan? Word count still at less than 500? Never fear, there is still time to catch up. That is the beauty of the challenge lasting for a whole month. There are good days and bad days, but in many ways how is that different to life in general? Any published author will tell you there are days when it feels like pulling teeth and they wonder how they got a book deal in the first place. The key: get up, dust yourself off and keep going. The good days will come.

So how did your first few days go?