12 feet 6 inches

This is probably a good day to set your goals. The NaNo goal is 50,000. This translates to about 100 pages single spaced or 180 pages double spaced. More if you have a lot of dialogue.

Here are some goals if you intend to pace yourself evenly:
-50,000 words/month
-12,500 words/week
-1667 words/day

Assuming you are double spacing, this translates to about:
-180 pages/month
-45 pages/week
-6 pages/day

Feel free to set your own goals. I pole vaulted in high school for two seasons. Having gotten a late start in the sport, I decided to prove myself by aiming higher than all of my peers' personal records. I aimed for 12 feet 6 inches - 6 inches higher than the highest personal record. I trained for it, and I got it by the end of my senior year. Of course, by then a friend of mine had destroyed his and the school's records and was vaulting 14 feet or so. My point is that it is fun to set your own goals and hold yourself accountable to them. Try for 55,000. Or 20,000 really great words.

Enjoy yourself and take this opportunity to play.

-Chris

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National Novel Writing Month

NaNoWriMo is many things. It is the end of normalcy for an entire month. It is a lofty aspiration that is finally attainable. It is a way to stay sane - or, conversely - to go productively insane for the long winter.

One month, one novel. 50,000 words. Get your snicky snackies ready, clean your desk beforehand, prepare your procrastination, say goodbye to your families, and buy your wrist guards.

Thus begins our foray into the thick that is writing. This space is Aspiring Authors Anonymous. We are here to support each other in this endeavor. We will share our experiences and anecdotes in the hopes that we inspire, relate, or entertain one another. All for one, and one for all.

Good night and good luck.

-Chris, Abbi, and Veronica

*** You may still sign on the NaNo site if you are setting your own word goal. My students are 'doing GaNoWriMo' -Gaboury's Novel Writing Month- and the goal is 8,000 words. But others set their own word goal. The site has cool widgets to help show your progress and so on!

--Veronica