The Little Flag Says "Yay" On It.

So, I totally missed that Friday was the one-year birthday of this blog.

*waves tiny flag*

Today was a pretty good day. It wasn't an eventful day--I got up, I puttered, I went to work, I worked, now I'm home--but still, a good day. Worked with good people, got to have lunch with Ryan, finished reading a book, did some planning.

Tomorrow begins my Month of Planning. I'm going to attempt a daily routine of going to my Starbucks and working on my story idea for a good amount of time, before or after work. I know that if I don't have a good skeleton by November 1st, I'm going to waste precious time trying to get organized instead of fleshing it out and just writing. So, October is going to be devoted to character design, scene order, background, and so on.

Fortunately, it seems my schedule will make this pretty easy (*crosses fingers*). I'm pre-closing all next week, which means I can get there around 10 or 11 and have 3-4 hours to work on things before clocking in. I've been doing afternoons pretty steadily almost my entire span there, so I feel good about the reliability of this schedule.

November is going to be even more devoted than October. I'll be getting up early and staying up late, devoting every break and meal and available minute to pounding out the words. I am going to put in the best effort I possibly can. I don't even care if I make the goal or not--wait, no, that's a lie. Of course I care about making the goal. But almost more than that, I just want to prove that I can devote myself to writing, and not just dreaming about it.

I'm happy that tomorrow will be my first "real" effort toward NaNoWriMo. It's not the first of October; it's the fourth. And four is my lucky number.