The first rule of NaNoWriMo...

The first rule of NaNoWriMo is to simply write.

Write hard.

Write fast.

Write messy.

Don't think too much about what it is that you're writing or where it's going because, the first time you start to invest too much in this 30-day draft, in cleaning things up and worrying about what will be taking place in your plot in a few days or a few hours from now, you will get bogged down. You'll miss your daily word counts. The little counter that tells you how you're doing will start to place your reaching the 50,000 word goal in late December, sometime in early January.

I have already, as you know from my previous post, looked down and tripped over my own shoelace.

I am also, as you will also notice, spending time and wasting words here in my blog and not in my manuscript.

A manuscript that I have, despite knowing that NaNoWriMo glory rests not necessarily in the quality but in the quantity, started already to worry about. Despite having two projects already going, two manuscripts that need my attention and, ideally, some significant portion of my brain power, I'm dismantling and re...mantling (?) the draft that I started just three days ago.

I'm the literary equivalent of the buxom blonde who twists her ankle while running away from the zombie in heels. I looked back.

The second rule of NaNoWriMO is never look back (1).

1. I have no affiliation with NaNoWriMo. I am in no way empowered to make rules for them.