The starter’s pistol has been fired, november took off and with him all the writers. I started at a pretty good pace yesterday and wrote 2872 words already on this first day. But it’s the weekend which means more time for writing and next week I have something going on nearly every evening which means not much time to write. But I’m happy with the takeoff for I was afraid that I wouldn’t find my way back into the story which already had 58706 words. But I started pretty easy, had already something in mind to begin and was immediately in a good writing flow. Actually the biggest problem was to find a place with power for my Macbook Air!

I was on a writers meeting in Zurich in the afternoon which used more of my battery than expected. But I could write on the train there and back and trains is where I write the best. Much better than at home because there is nothing to distract me. At home I always had dozens of other things to do but on the train I haven’t and the other people do not distract me at all.

If anybody knows a good and nice Café in Winterthur with power sockets please leave a reply to this post!

The Coop restaurant in the Manor building doesn’t. This one would actually have enough place so I didn’t bother anyone when I would stay there and write for some hours. The most cafés are just too small. Kaffeesatz (coffee sentence) which I personally like very much doesn’t seem to have any sockets as well and actually it’s pretty loud because they play loud music and it is always pretty crowded.

I ended up in the library. Librariers are just perfect for writing and writers (and reading of course), but on saturdays it closes on 5 PM already. But what I nice place to write, where all the books are watching you and your book might end up one day?

Actually I didn’t work so many hours yesterday (about 2 or 3), so I’m pretty happy with my word count.

The hardest is actually to start and not stop. Stops kill the flow, but you will always stop on some point and think about what should happen next.

But what you never ever should do in NaNoWriMo:

Delete a word!

The best is you don’t read any word you have written. Save the reading and working over for december! With these (not counting words) I head up for the second day and start writing. You can track my progress here.