I set my personal goal for NaNoWriMo this year at 10,000 words. Thanks to the Pikes Peak Writers and Chris Mandeville for setting up the NaNoTRYMo this year. I spent 3 hours writing at the PPW Write-in and cranked out over 6,000 words in that 3 hours. It's amazing what you can do when surrounded by creative energy, general silence and the desire to put words down. Combine those 6,000 words with the 3,000-some-odd I already had down, and my new total is 10,039!

I crushed my goal already and it's only three days into November!

Now that I've already accomplished my goal in just 3 days, I'm setting a new goal: 25,000 words by the end of the month. I think I can reach that one as well. Who knows? Maybe in 3-4 days I'll be posting that I crushed that goal as well. If so, I'll set a new goal and keep going until the month is out.

Oh. Since I pumped 10,000 words into OpenOffice what is the quality of writing, you might ask? It's great, I think. It's very high quality, first draft work. Yes, that means that I'll need to go back, polish, edit, clean up and improve upon the work. I don't know of a single person that gets it all right on the first go around. I'm certainly not one of them. It usually takes me four drafts of a short story before I feel confident in submitting it for publication. I hope I don't have to do four drafts of my novel before submitting it, but if I have to go down that road, so be it.

Wish me luck on hitting my new goal!