Day 1 - Was it everything you wanted (and more)?

I pretty well wrote the bare minimum I could for the daily amount, so about 1700 words, due to a hectic weekend schedule. But even so, it was actually pretty easy thus far. Hopefully I'll get even more of a word count tomorrow!

- Life is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangy-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have a half a one for breakfast. - Ford Prefect

On Futurama, it's 3009, yet their "cellphone telephones" still look the same. And playing Tetris on phones is still in style in 3009. I watched Futurama, listened to Jones & Bermas, decided that some of the characters in my NaNo novel should be Matrix fans ... not the crap from Matrix 1, but the inspired brilliance of Valdamar Valerian's Matrix 3 Volume 2, and beyond. Matrix 3, Volume 2, came out in 1995, and my story takes place in 1999. In reality, I didn't learn about Valerian's work until a couple of weeks ago. But it's the kind of stuff that I've been interested in all my life. Everyone thinks that Icke exposed the "Reptilian Agenda" in his book THE BIGGEST SECRET which came out in 1999, but Valerian exposed it in much greater detail in 1995. Valerian's work shows the hard science, whereas Icke's books explain it in conversational language as an attempt to wake-up a mainstream audience. The funny thing is that individual research has everyone so compartmentalized in this world that I'll bet Icke never even heard of Valerian. So in my novel, my characters were "in the loop" as soon as the books were released -- whereas in reality books on esoteric topics reach their target audience years, sometimes decades, sometimes centuries, after their release. My Novel features a group of teenagers who are fans of Alex Jones, Bill Cooper, David Icke, Val Valerian, etc, in their early adolescence. I would have loved that material back then, but instead I was indoctrinated in a whole bunch of religious b***shit, and I thought that all the different sitcoms reflected all the diversity that there was. I was fast asleep like most people. So I'm living vicariously through my characters. One thing that really pisses me off is that it took me SIX YEARS after 9/11 before I realized that 99% of the media has been taken over by the same corporations who orchestrated 9/11 for oil profits. That was a real kick in the face. Suddenly, I realize why they get airheads to host the news shows, and "father figures" to be late night anchormen ... and I study NLP (Neurolinguistic Programming, a subtle hypnosis technique) and I realize that the TV news anchors (especially on the national news) employ NLP techniques ALL THE FREAKING TIME to keep people in line with the corporate interests of the elites. Next thing you know, I become a regular fan of online radio shows who tell it like it is, and I learn that the english language news services from Russia and Iran are the last truthful commercialized news channels available, and that the American media is run by oil and banking corporations who are smearing Russia and Iran solely so suppress the truthful information that comes from their news services. As soon as I learned all this, I was like: "Where the hell was I all these years? This is the sort of stuff I'm interested in, and why the hell didn't I think my way out of the propaganda earlier?" So my NaNo novel is about a group of teenagers who had always been able to think their way out of the propaganda. And I got a lot of planning done today.

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Yeah-- it was A-okay, although I thought I would breask the 2000 word count.
However, going to the Library cut in a bit on my headspace. It was good though.
I liked meeting some of the Wrimos at the meet up.
I need to stay focused, or as James says, 'cocooned' though, after work everyday now. Gotta get at least 10-12K by next Monday. Or else I am dead in the water! what with a week's trip then.

The writing exercises helped me get past some of my mouthy-editor issues, too.
I highly recommend the meet ups for this and besides, they're fun. It is great to see 100 signed up for the Saskatoon region.

Paphos

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A conclusion is what you write when you are tired of thinking...

By the end of the day I had almost three days worth of words written. The two word wars I was in right after midnight on the 1st helped with that. Didn't get much written at work before work, it was so busy I just vegged during my dinner break. I am thinking writing at work this time around is not going to work will have to play that one by ear. Still I hope to have at least four days worth of words before I go to work tonight. I have tomorrow of so once I get back from taking mom to the Chiropractor I will have all day and most of the night to write and put a real dent in the old word count.

So all in all it was a good start.

With 1700 words on the first day...it's my worst first day too -but this is only my 4th nano =). But it's still good haha sat was halloween and i was at a friends. I didn't get home till 1 so had no time to write before bed because I had to work 10-5:30 on sun. So i had no time before work either. Then after work I went straight to my martial arts class and came home and ate supper. Than I did homework, so I actually didn't start writing till after 10 on sunday night! So i'm happy with my first day haha
good job everyone else! Look at those numbers...ooh! haha good luck to you all

William Louison
NaNoWriMo: 2006 - Won; 2007 - Won; 2008 - Won; 2009 - Won
ScriptFrenzy: 2008 - Won; 2009 - Participated; 2010 - \

I also had my worst first day ever. Although once I got the stuff from the write-in typed up (that's all I wrote yesterday), it turned out I'd written just over 1000 words, so that was pretty decent, although definitely not ideal. I caught up today, though.

In fact, I had my best second day ever.