Day 5 NaNoWriMo – A Bonfire, Pumpkin Curry and Words

Tonight’s writing was extremely challenging. I knew it would be this way and it is not (yet) because NaNoWriMo itself has become a challenge – that dip generally comes in the 2^nd week if my Camp experience was anything to go by.

Last night I cheated, only in as far as I wrote 1004 words to count towards today knowing I wouldn’t even get to write until late this evening. I didn’t even make it home much before 6pm and I had things I needed to do and organise before I could log on. I have managed 40 minutes so far and only managed another 737 words… it has been a struggle. Why?

Well I am a panster without a plan! I need to think about where the story is going and do some planning before my next write.

I have managed to break the daily word count because I gave myself a head start last night and Mr G was making tea, allotment pumpkin curry for Bonfire Night (my mouth was certainly on fire after it… slightly too many home grown uber hot chillis!)

It is Guy Fawkes night so I have spent most of the night outside, until now (11:30pm). We wrapped up warm in many layers and made our way up to the garden. In previous years we have either gone to parties and other people’s fireworks night or found an organised event. This year most of those were last weekend and we were at the HMV Institute watching Mark Lanegan. This is the 1^st year either of us have had a garden (as we lived in flats).

We had sparklers and pumpkin curry. Scrumptious Scrumpy Cider (which dowsed the fire of the curry) and watched other people’s expensive fireworks. Mr G made a firepit and we had our own bonfire. It was a lovely evening.