Last year and this year I’ve participated in a challenge called Writo De Mayo. It has a lot more flexibility than NaNoWriMo. The participant chooses the goal.
I’ve seen goals of “writing # words daily”, “writing drabble/poem each day”, and “finish reading book/research for novel”. This year my goal was to have a second draft of my 2008 NaNo currently titled Three Girls, a Corgi and a Dead Body. Gee… I wonder who some of the main characters might be? 🙂
I procrastinated too long and didn’t take into account how much time would be needed to edit it into the next draft so I didn’t complete my goal this year for Writo De Mayo. It has not been as painful to read it as I expected. The Corgi is more of a character at the beginning than towards the end. Two of the characters are sisters and one has the horrible nickname of “Sass”. She’s losing that in the next draft.