It was a dark and stormy night...

Since the Internet ate my last post, which was about both Hallowe'en and NaNoWriMo (choose to believe that it was literally the most awesome post ever), I've decided to update from the first day of NaNo.

I've got off to a pretty flying start (4118 words and counting!) but I know better than to trust that. I'm sure I'll lose that head start next week sometime.

But my post today is about competetiveness. See, one of the major ways I kept myself motivated to get a lot of words out of the way today is by looking at my buddies list word totals (in the absence of a Word Scoreboard for 2011 at this point) and insist on beating them all. And one of my friends is at almost four and a half thousand words today. So, of course, I decided to work my way up with my friends who were (sensibly) sticking to a bit over today's recommended word count so as to do important things like eat and eventually ended up battling for top spot with 4 and a half k. I claim I'm not competetive, but that's just because I restrain myself normally :D

I've heard that one technique for motivation is to check the scoreboard for the person a few steps above you and try to beat their wordcount. I could see this turning into a hilarious battle for dominance, but it sounds good to me. Looking forward to the scoreboard working so I can give full rein to my competitive streak!