I had a brilliant (brilliant in theory… perhaps not so brilliant in practice) idea while I was stuck behind a slow-moving tractor thingy on the road (one of the perks of living in a mostly rural area). Camp NaNoWriMo obviously is supposed to have a camping theme. “Camp” brings to mind going outside, getting bitten by insects, sitting around a fire pit, and “roughing it,” which means no technology.
So then I got the idea to go old school with my Camp NaNo project. No staring at the blinking cursor on the computer screen! I’m going to put one of my many notebooks to good use and write the whole draft longhand. With my word count goal, I’m going to write only 750 words a day. That will be one page front and back and the front of another page per day if my calculations are correct. Doesn’t sound like it’ll be too hard, and I can validate my word count with a lorem ipsum generator at the end of the month.
And the best part is, with an old-fashioned notebook, I can write wherever I want, and I won’t be glued to my desk (I don’t have a laptop), so if the weather’s nice, I may go outside!
