NaNo Day One

Day one of NaNoWriMo is finally here and the writing has started! We hosted our first write-in in my region this afternoon, and I have clocked my first 1700 words. The thing is, they are words in the wrong book.

Yup, you heard that right. Wrong book.

I had a plan. I had a plot. I even had a logical reason I needed to write what I'd intended. That all went out the window when I opened my laptop today.

I was supposed to start GW2 today. Instead I'm working on a shiny. My critique partners are ready to kill me, but I managed to convince myself the shiny was the more logical book to write. I know, I know. With six books in my que, there is no real logical reason to write something not contracted. But . . . I haven't received edits for GW1 yet, so major things could change that would possibly reshape the direction of the second book. (It sounded more convincing in my head.) I'm also probably going to get interrupted by two different revision notes this month, so working on something completely unconnected seemed like a good idea. We'll see. It's just one month out of the year, right?

This should be an interesting NaNo. My shiny is little more than an idea and a single character, so I'm totally pantsing this. So far, so good, but keep your fingers crossed for me.

The night is not yet over, but I've crossed the official 'nano goal' of the day, so I'm going to go ahead and splash my progress meter on the page. There will hopefully be more words after dinner--or at least some plotting.

1724 / 50000 words. 3% done!

So how is everyone else out there doing? How has the first day of NaNo treated you? Did the words flow out like you opened the flood gate when you opened your word processor, or are you struggling into a new story? Anyone's story already take an interesting turn you didn't expect? Anyone else start the wrong story (okay, not 'wrong', but an unplanned one)?

Good luck and write with abandon! Now, let's see those day one word counts!