NaNoWriMo

So...I decided to go for it and start a novel on November 1st! The happiness this project is bringing me is somewhat puzzling and certainly unexpected. Could I actually have been meant to be a writer all along? I don't know...I don't really write the kind of quality material typical of honest-to-goodness Writers (with a capital 'W'). But I really am having fun. Seriously. So weird.

Anyway, I just thought I'd take a break from my 5,500 words (oops...I'm supposed to be somewhere over 8,000 by now, but I'm trying not to fret) to make a note on something that's bothering me about my story so far. This is the fact that I started in a sort of flashback period, expecting this to last only a chapter, at most. But now I'm into the third chapter (yeah, these are Dan Brown-length chapters...suck it), and still about 8 months away from what I was considering "the present." And I'm tired of summarizing, so I started writing dialogue between characters to keep myself going. Is this okay? I was only planning to start my characters having conversations once I had caught up to "real time." Hmmm...I'm just frightened that dialogue within someone's description of the past seems really goofy. I mean, no one writes word for word dialogue in their diary, right? So would a narrator really recall entire complex conversations from 8 months ago? Doubtful.

I assume I'll just press on and continue to allow my characters to converse with one another -- it just feels so wrong! Oh well, the point of NaNoWriMo is to JUST KEEP MOVING, and that's what I'm trying to do.