#WritingMonth 2025 / #NaNoWriMo 2025 Day One
The midnight kickoff on our old group's discord was just me, but I still managed a gentle start with a pair of sprints. Worst kickoff since I started doing them, under 1k, but... at least I wrote.
Wrapped up the evening with a couple more sprints (and another writer in the region joined me), hit my word count plus a smidge. So, yay!
2,002 / 50,000
Day Seven:
13,331 / 50,000
D'oh! Forgot to update along the way...
It started slow, and writing was very difficult for the first few days. However, yesterday I was able to manage two good writing shifts (a set of morning sprints, and a set of evening sprints), and fully caught up with an almost 6k day.
Very slightly ahead right now, after writing this morning.
...and apparently I'm just forgetting all over the place to post.
Day Twenty-Two:
37,973 / 50,000
I was a tad behind for a short while, but caught up surprisingly easily. Things are going smoothly, which would be scary, except this is my twelfth November doing this.
Day Twenty-Seven:
50,005 / 50,000
Success, but there's about 6.5k left to write to achieve my real goal for this month. This is a great spot to be with three days left, though, that makes it a fairly easy 2,200/day to wrap up.
Day Twenty-Nine:
55,817 / 50,000
This is not a palindrome (which I've been doing for ages), because it's far more special than that. My millionth word written specifically during NaNoWriMo. Even better, my twelfth NaNoWriMo, so a "year" of Novembers. This has been an explicit goal (and has been a big driver of my 100k+ word counts for several years) since 2016 when a friend accomplished the same (he started well before I did).
I did it! 🎉
Day Thirty:
56,765 / 50,000
I had to end on a palindrome, so I added a small amount after the milestone. And that's a wrap, for me!
I hope your November brought you words, if that was what you wanted!