Chris Baty (the founder of Nanowrimo) sent out the latest “ra-ra” email to stirr the troops. In it he said,
The more you write, the more inspired you’re going to feel. If you’re feeling pokey now, it’s because you’re not writing enough. Push yourself to write every day, and make a point of adding something to your word count any time you’re within striking distance of a keyboard. Harness the power of micro-sessions.
I believe that is exactly what I have been doing. I have a plain text format for my novel (its getting formatted automatically online, on ht fly, when people read it). I have a text editor lurking in the background and while automated tests are running and I would otherwise be reading some piece of technical documentation or browsing Slashdot I have been writing. Evidence of this is the fact that I am at 37,000 words so far. Thats further than I ought to be at 1/2 way through the month. Its dawning on me rapidly that I might actually finish this thing! I might beat the Nanowrimo goal of 50,000 in 30 days.
So, back to work I go. Write some tests. Write some code. Run some tests. Write some Nano. (lather, rinse, repeat).