I came into the nano project without a clue as to what I'd write about. I have a lot of backburner things that I've just not had time to develop, but I didn't want to limit myself to any of them, nor did I want to get wrapped up trying to find that one shiny penny that I simply must work on.
Instead, what I did was approach the first day with a plain ol' dump session. If it came to mind, I typed it in until life events interrupted me.
The next few days were mostly constructive procrastion days, in which I kept the nano in the back of my head.
Yesterday, I finally got back into the nano. When I opened my file, I saw quite a mess of unrelated goings on. Then I happened to finally get into the forum, to find a thread about posting your first line. So into the mess I dove, and found one line that really stuck with me.
That's what I started with. Yes, I cut and pasted everything to a "dump" file just in case, but I then started the same process from that one sentence.
And off I went. Although I felt weird breaking one of the cardinal rules (no self editing), it felt right, and I ran with it.
Several hours later, I found myself once again dumping almost everything I had written. I'm still not totally clear on how I got to where I'm now running with clear direction, but the jump start I wanted, I got.
I may be behind on the suggested word count, but I'm already making good on catching up. 1/10th of the way that I need to be by midnight tonight to be on par with the target suggestion. Not bad, considering I was down to less than 100 words twice in the last 24 hours, and I took a few days off.
Pressing on...
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