I have an idea for doing nano this year and not spending my time just trying to get a huge word count full of things I don’t care about. I call it reading to write. Pick some good books and read them looking for how the author conveys information often description but possibly even plot. Maybe dedicate an hour a day to this with the goal being to write three sentences, but not to write the sentences until I’ve done some reading and write them one at a time maybe.
I Just ordered writing notebooks. I’m almost out, although I haven’t decided if I’ll keep my ramblings or not. But I do like a nice notebook to write in. I did buy two cheap ones, figuring I could put a pretty picture on the front. And two pretty ones. Figure I may want to start one just for the NaNo stuff. Could have lots of notebooks for different things since we’re not going places.