As so many now know, today is the first day of National Novel Writing Month, also known as NaNoWriMo, and, for me, it’s like Christmas morning, when anything is possible.

Despite a mishap in setting up my document in Microsoft Word, I managed to get to 2, 482 words today, earning a badge on my NaNoWriMo website account dashboard–chiefly because I did some work on my book after work as well as early this morning. For the rest of the month, I’m going to try to limit work on my novel to mornings before I have to go to work as well as my days off–I don’t want to spend too much of my time after work writing my novel, especially seeing as I have other things to do.

But here it all is–I’ve finished the first chapter of my book, I’ve exceeded the prescribed daily word count for today, and I’m raring to go for tomorrow, whatever may happen–Word setup mishaps included.