NaNo: Word counts

By now this is my third year doing NaNo. 50k of words is a good target to aim for, but when you're working full time on top of writing it's a pretty sure fire way to burn out, or even fall sick.

This year I knew my day job was going to be pretty hectic and there was no way I was going to make about 1.7k of words a day. I needed a better plan.

Then I read this tumblr post about just writing 350 words a day. And taking two days off! This sounded like something I was capable of.

I'd been doing 750 words before that, so 350 words was a pretty easy target to hit. But not maxing out my word count also allowed me to dedicate other words to other areas. Plotting. World building that hadn't occurred to me. Rounding out new characters that had popped up.

So I'm pretty satisfied with using a 350 word count as a base, and counting everything else as a step up.