Beginning of week two

I got in a pretty good word count after my last post, adding the the count I had already done that day. However, I didn't get any writing done yesterday or today. Not the greatest way to start week two of my NaNoWriMo of course.

The thing is, although I wasn't actually writing today, I was working out scenes in my head all last night and today. I wrote a lot of notes down to at least remind me of directions I wanted to go and thoughts I came up with, so that when I do get a chance to sit and just write, I can write way past my daily goals.

One of my biggest fears has been writing out of order, and that's what I'm trying to overcome now. At the moment there is just no way to write from beginning to end because I'm not sure what's happening. I'm writing the big scenes, the scenes that stick out most in my mind and also scenes that are most essential to the overall plot. I'm hoping that it means that by the end of week three and beginning of week four, I'll just have to go back into the story that's there are fill in the gaps. I have to do that anyway of course, but it's a start. NaNoWriMo has a word count of 50,000 words. The typical YA novel is 80,000 - 90,000 words. So I know that even if I make my NaNoWriMo count, I still have a long way to go. The thing I'm most worried about is when I start filling in the gaps because I'm known for second guessing myself and revising while I write which I'm stemming off for this challenge as suggested by the challenge founder, but when I have to go back in and fill in gaps and lengthen what's there....there's bound to be some revising going on. I just have to fight the urge so that I can get my first rough draft done.