Off to a phenomenal start

I did it! I woke up this morning at five o'clock, sick as a dog, and I wrote 2,125 words of my novel. I sucked in a deep breath and just plunged right in, somewhere in the middle. And as I went along, I thought, this isn't a bad place to start after all.

And then, because I'm at a copywriting conference, I realized that I could probably start the story several hundred words down . . . But I won't worry about that now because this is National Novel WRITING Month. National Novel EDITING Month doesn't come 'round 'til February. For now, it's all about production, baby.

This morning, I was one screaming writing machine.

Then I went back to bed for some much-needed rest.

Later, when I finally emerged to grab lunch, I squeezed another 76 words in at the sports bar, bringing my total word count to 2,201.

Woohoo! Best of all, this puts me significantly ahead of my daily goal of 1,667. I'm already almost a third of the way through tomorrow's quota.

Not that I'm planning to coast--even though it probably wouldn't be a bad idea. I'm still sick, and I'm writing this entry at 1:30 in the morning.

But this month, I follow the footsteps of Stephen King. The goal is 2,000 words a day. That would actually put me ahead of schedule. But I'm sure something will come up to derail me.

For now, I'm reveling in the sweet taste of success--and the thrill of seeing where my story takes me.