Nano, Day 1 – 3099 and I didn’t even break a sweat

Yeah, yeah. Big talk on day one, mister!

My schedule is really screwy right now. I was dialed (yes boys and girls of the broadband age, dialed) into a customer sites at 2 AM, writing in between the jobs running on their system. “The Last of the Duke Street Kings” started almost painfully slow, even though I thought I had the first chapter pretty well planned out in advance.

I was stiff, slow. I wanted to quit. But, after a while, I kind of hit a stride. Then I slept for a few hours between 4:30 and 8:30; got back onto work things and started writing again around 11. Things really seemed to flow then, and I hit 3099 around 12:30.

Worked some more; ran on the treadmill at 3. Back at work, and now I’m winding down. I have some more night work, so I’ll see if I can rinse and repeat.

All that said, it’s a really rough first draft. I posted it on my nano profile page:

http://www.nanowrimo.org/user/47723