Writing my 1500-2000 words a day for NaNoWriMo

Roger Zelazny said:

I try to write every day. I used to try to write four times a day, minimum of three sentences each time. It doesn’t sound like much but it’s kinda like the hare and the tortoise. If you try that several times a day you’re going to do more than three sentences, one of them is going to catch on. You’re going to say “Oh boy!” and then you just write. You fill up the page and the next page But you have a certain minimum so that at the end of the day, you can say “Hey I wrote four times today, three sentences, a dozen sentences. Each sentence is maybe twenty word long. That’s 240 words which is a page of copy, so at least I didn’t goof off completely today. I got a page for my efforts and tomorrow it might be easier because I’ve moved as far as I have.

It’s something I’ve quoted before, but I’ve been thinking about it re NaNoWriMo.

Obviously 240 < 1500. But the principle applies.

I’ve noted in myself that I write best at a sprint. The Muse starts poking me, and it just flows. If I get interrupted, or have to feel like I’m multitasking, I just can’t do it. It’s one reason I get very short when I’m writing (even something as trivial as emails or blog entries) and get interrupted. It makes me wonder if I need to plan on moving my laptop upstairs so that I can write without interruption or worry of (a) being distracted by family life in the family room, or (b) snapping like a rabid wolf over same.

At any rate, I’ll probably take Zelazny to heart in this, and set an alarm for four times a day to actually check my writing during NaNoWriMo Just as a prod to actually do some writing.