An important step to a killer NaNoWriMo day happens the day before.
Yes, I said it. I don’t know what your writing situation is like, but I know what mine is. I have a home office, and an office where I work. At any given moment these spaces are filled with clutter (artists have to be messy, I read that on the internet, so it’s true).
I knew that the only DEFINITE time I could write a novel would have to be early in the morning. I also knew that if my office wasn’t ready for me to sit my butt in the chair and write immediately, I would most likely sleep through the 5:30 am alarm. Because waking up to work, to work to work is a lot different than just waking up to work, if you understand that. I don’t want to accomplish tasks before I get to the main task.
So I have coffee brewing 5 minutes before my alarm goes off, I have a cup of ice water in a thermal tumbler near my computer, and I have my computer on sleep instead of off. I spend time in prayer and reading and then I jump in like an Olympic swimmer.
I think sometimes we create artificial obstacles to sabotage ourselves. I knew that if I was going to do this, I would need to remove all obstacles.
Set up your place. I realize you may not have a place. Set up your computer to make it expressly easy to jump on and start writing. Set up whatever device you’re using to write and make it easy on yourself. Let the only struggle you have be the struggle with words, not to get to them.
What are you doing that’s working? Keep on writing and take down those hurdles!