NaNoWrimo Day One - Sluggish Start

Most years I like to get a running start in the beginning of NaNoWriMo, since the week two blues are not that far away and to get through those without falling too far behind would really require you to do well in the beginning. However, NaNo kicked off on a busy weekend (family time) and it was hard to get much of anything done.

I did do okay when it was all said and done, though by writing in spurts when I got the chance to. I wasted some time thinking of the perfect beginning (do I start with this or this sort of decision) then said forget it and just wrote with the scene that was vaguely in my head. While the other would have been a great opening hook, it would not establish a bond between the character and the reader, and at that point who would care what happened to her?

I've found that with each year I'm more and more lax on how I enter into this event. I'm spending less time prepping for it with plot and research - yet I'm still going in prepared and ready. This being my fourth year I'm not sitting so long fighting to have the perfect beginning. I'm just writing. The inner critic is pretty much gone, and sleeping. Good, because I'll need their help come time to edit - but not before that.

With some time to stall and goof off added, I would up with a total of 1,879 words by midnight local time. Not the 2,000 words a day I'd have liked, but not too far off from that either. All in all not too bad at all.