29 days and some hours until NaNoWriMo

Yes, I plan to do it again. I even have a vague idea to work from. Very vague. I still have time though, so I'm not worried about that yet.

This will be my sixth NaNo. I've noticed some trends in my NaNo experiences that are rather depressing. It gets harder every year for one. Here's a bit of a review of the experiences: ( This ended up rather long. )

So in the end it boils down to this:

• Unless I have a really good idea I'm going to be whiny and complain a lot.


• Even with a good idea I'm still going to whine.


• When the writing goes well, it will go very well.


• When it goes badly, it can go very, very badly.


• I can, if pressed, knock out about seven thousand words in a day.


• I am much more comfortable getting a day or two of buffer built up and sticking between fifteen hundred and two thousand words.


• When I'm stuck, add more characters or split them up so I have more than one location to write about.


• If the story just will not move I'm probably pushing in the wrong place.


• In general, the less I post the worse it's going.