To be on par for the month, you should be writing 1667 words per day.
Already. It's day ONE. Day ONE of THIRTY, and already I hate NANOWRIMO.
And I hate this Chris guy who sent me this sickeningly cheery e-mail this morning:
Greetings! My name is Chris Baty, and I'm the director of National Novel Writing Month. Welcome to this year's noveling extravaganza! It's great to have you writing with us.
How the hell can he be feeling so cutesy and happy when he's done this eight fricking times? November is not beautiful. November sucks. And I never surge early. I surge late. I'm a journalist. I LIKE to wait to the last minute and make myself miserable and sick in order to meet deadlines.As impossible as it may seem standing here on the precipice overlooking a vast November, NaNoWriMo will be over before you know it. Which brings me neatly to the subject at hand: Week One. The keys to thriving in Week One are straightforward:
1) Surge early. To be on par for the month, you should be writing 1667 words per day. In Week One, try to get 2000 or 2500 a day, and beg, borrow, and steal as much of the first weekend as possible to write.