1st Week Status

Well, so far, so good.
I have been writing for a week, which given my every-other-day schedule means that I've had four one-hour sessions. Out of that I have gotten 7,851 words, averaging 1,962 words per session - not bad.
As you might guess from my word count, I'm sticking with the NaNoWriMo style first draft: just write. And write. And write. And save the re-writing for later.
The advantage of this is that once momentum has been established, the words, ideas, and action flow fairly naturally.
The disadvantage is that it's hard to know whether what you're writing is good or horrible. It also means that going back and fixing things up later will probably take rather more work.
Still, overall I think it works fairly well for me. I'll just have to have faith that it isn't all crap.

Although it's only the end of the first week, I think I'm going to adjust my schedule to 4 times per week (preferably approximately every-other-day). If I stick with strictly every-other-day I'll get 3-4 hours in each week, depending on the week, and they'll keep scooting around. Given that my schedule makes writing on some days considerably easier than others, such scooting around isn't really such a good thing.

On to the second week! I'm hoping to get my protagonist into some difficulties this week . . . .