NaNoWriMo Days 3-4: No News is No News

So the last couple of days have kind of sucked.  Saturday was rainy in that Nor'easter way, which not only annoyed me because I had to be out in the rain, but also because I can't stand the term Nor'easter.  It's just a storm, people!

Anyway, I didn't want to leave the house, so I tried to get as much work done around here as I could.  It WOULD have made sense, of course, to actually also do a bunch of writing and get ahead, but no.  That wasn't happening.

Decided I'd spend Saturday evening writing, but then got an invitation to go watch "The Exorcist" at a friend's.  He said I was glad to do some writing while over at his place (he later admitted he didn't want to watch the movie alone...) but of course, put a cheeseburger and a drink in me, and I'm not going to get a lot done.  I DID spend some of Saturday rethinking the first chapter of the novel, since I am not happy with the current character dynamics.

Today, Sunday, I woke up determined to juggle getting a lot done with spending time with the boyfriend, since I will be busy tomorrow, and I will be out of town Tuesday through Friday.  I really really miss Andrew still, even when it's only a few days, so I always want to make the most of our time before I go on a business trip.  And of course I usually end up driving him crazy in my efforts.  So today turned into "Get my act together" day -- paying bills, trying to get my new (almost free!) Palm phone at least synced to the proper data although it can't make calls yet (WHY am I going back to Sprint?  WHY?  Oh right.  Because they have the sexy phones and T-Mobile doesn't.  But I'm gonna miss being able to move my SIM card to a new phone whenever I want...), etc.

So now it's nearly midnight and this will make my first "two day slump" in NaNoWriMo, and tomorrow does not look much better.  I will have to really push myself to make this happen.

Fortunately, I did run into NaNoWriMo buddy Seth today, and we talked about our works in progress.  I gave him my advice from last year -- write fast, and don't look back -- and then realized I should be taking that advice.

So yes, you will see the completed chapter 1 soon.  I may withhold it until I can edit it at least a bit, to make it match up with chapter 2 (since I'm now writing forward again!)... but considering I am supposed to be through 4 chapters now (if I stick to my original chapter-a-day plan)... I really can't afford to look back much!

OK, that's it from me.  Now I am going to go back to worrying about whether syncing my old Palm to my new Palm is going to mess things up...