Mac Mode

The alarm went off this morning and briefly I thought about sleeping in and saying forget it. My wife kept nudging me. Finally I figured out what that was.

So I got up, came into the room with the Mac, started Open Office and waited to see what came out.

Apparently there is enough fire in this novel-length idea to tell at least 2,977 words of itself this morning.

Here’s an excerpt:

As he corrected himself Will became acutely aware how wrong almost everything had seemed since he’d woken up - actually, since he’d had the weird nightmare. Something had changed all around him. One seemingly huge part of his life was just … gone.

He had awoken in a world without Windows.

Will Bios is having a really bad start to his day … where any of this goes, I do not really know, but I do have a grounded perspective. I’m going to have fun with it and let the story tell itself. If it becomes a trunk novel, then so be it, but I won’t know that until the journey is over.

This blog will continue to be updated on writing days throughout November for all of NaNoWriMo and whomever is interested and/or wants to help motivate or inspire me to get to that goal in time.

I’ll create a separate category called NaNoWriMo 2004 as well and categorize these posts there for easy finding.

The first draft of this novel will be written entirely on the Mac.

Here’s a real time counter I created yesterday to show whether I’m on pace or not for the 50,000 (it will continue to be updated throughout the month, as my progress continues):