NaNos at the Kickoff

Sunday, October 30, was the kickoff party for Detroit area NaNo novelists. We walked in - we being Tiffany, Gary, Kim and your Brico - to Woody's here in Royal Oak not knowing what to expect. Well, noveling must be a big deal this year because there were 32, count 'em, 32 people sitting at a long table talking, gesticulating, laughing, and most of all, enthusiastically anticipating. That's at least three times as many as attended the kickoff last year.

YT felt like an old man amongst a crowd heavily salted with college students. No matter. Plenty of familiar faces showed up, including Amy, penultimate Municipal Liason and veteran WriMo, and the redoubtable MontiLee, more determined than ever to finish. Last year was a roundtable conversation among newfound friends; this year was a party.

Looks like the Brico will be keeping company with a lively bunch.

Word count after 3 days: 3,855

Noveling Month Starts

Well, YT stayed up late and wrote his first sentence, the one he'd been itching to set down for at least two weeks. "Two guys walked into a bar." Or something like that.

One thing led to another, so a few more sentences got written, until your Brico's eyelids were drooping. So, off to bed, off to work, and after supper, back to the novel. By the end of the evening, the Brico lids were rather leaden, but the first day yielded 1,869 words and all but a few paragraphs of the first chapter.

All right! We're off and running!