3K in Three Days

Ha, child's play-- writing three thousand words over the next three days. BECAUSE once NanoWrimo begins you need to write 5K every three days for a month to stay on track. Okay, let's back up. Why do I need to write 3K in three days now, when Nano doesn't start until November 1st?

I decided to flex my writing muscle in advance of Nano this year.  I'm kind of out of practice and like any skill, it's a "use it or lose it" thing with writing. So back on October 10 I set a goal of writing 500 words a day.  That got me back in a daily routine. By 10.20.2012 I had five thousand fresh words in a file. yay!  What kind of words, you wonder. No, not a bunch of curse words, nonsense, random tweets, or emails stuffed into a file. ;) This is semi-coherent writing practice.

Lama Dorjee of Dallas and me @KTC

Then I took off a few days (bad for writing routine, but good for karma) to retreat with my KTC Buddhist gang for some Bardo teachings.  Lama "DD" is one of my favorites. He calls himself the Jolly Lama because he laughs a lot. He even got off a few jokes and giggles during the Bardo (Book of the Dead) teachings!

I wrote a bit those days, mostly journaling, not part of my PreNano file.  As of today the file has 7061 words. This is where I get the 3K in three days concept. I also vowed to write at least ten thousand words in October as Nano prep. 

I'm not worried. I better be able to whip out a "K a Day" if there's any hope of writing 1667 a day every day in November. Yeah, I've heard of those people who claim to write the whole 50K in a few frenzied days, but those are rare birds. My experience is once you fall behind, it's a steep climb to write 3300 or 5,000 words in a day to catch up. It's rough writing 5K every three days for a month, but I intend to do it for my Ninth Nano cycle. GADZ! Wish me luck! BTW, this is 450 words, just for reference.