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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So. What's your goal?
ReplyDeleteI am glad to have the opportunity to try this. Wish I could do it with my 8th graders... oh well I will enjoy the process I am sure
ReplyDeleteMy goal? Same thing. 12 feet 6 inches. I want to get into the ballpark of 50,000 words, but I want to be excited to read it all over again when I'm done. I don't want it to be like searching for scattered gems hidden in the muck. I want it all to be worthwhile. I want it to hurt when I have to cut something out and I want it to be exhilarating when I have to add more in.
ReplyDeleteSo, I'm relaxed on the quantity, but strict on the quality.
As for me...my goal is 50,000 words and although I hope to be much more focused than I was last year (haha, how could I not be?!) I don't mind wallowing in some much some days so that I can actually get to the good stuff. My goal is to get myself into a rhythm and discipline of writing. To stay on task at something until it is done and then lift my eyes and see where I am. I plan on being on my way to the first draft of a YA novel. How about everyone else? Back to it!! :D
ReplyDeleteMy goal is to get to the word goal and write every single day...I don't really care what comes out, and I don't expect it to be coherent. I just need to get into the rhythm of writing, and making space for my voice in a conscious way, instead of when I happen to jot something on the fly.
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