Every day a big chunk of my writing time is taken up with research.  I knew I was going to be writing about  life in 1967, so I could have done some of this before hand, but I didn’t.  It’s not that I don’t enjoy the research .  It’s really a lot of fun, but it does mean I’m spending more time at my computer than it takes to write 1600 or 1700 words .

Today I looked up the 1967 calendar and cigarettes.  Yesterday I researched guns and cars.  (Can you tell it’s going to be a murder mystery?)  The day before it was mostly maps, names and fashions.

I would recommend NaNoWriMo to anyone who loves writing and wants to give novel-writing a whirl.  It’s only one month.  And it’s only a couple or three hours a day.  It isn’t really a huge commitment.    (But then, this IS only Day 4.)