A bit behind...

So this weekend got away from me - it's Day 8 and I'm currently 5,956 words behind.
Terrible, I know...

In fact, the new NaNo Stats meter has been taunting me with threats that at my current rate I'll finish on December 25th. Bah! Catching up 6k is easy as pie and I will finish by the 30th (with an extra 20k at least).

In fact, let's sweeten the deal. If I don't catch up before 1:32am tonight (a full 12 hours), I won't be allowed to drink soda or eat candy (which I have plenty of) until December.


And....

my time...

starts....

NOW!

It begins with a bang

So I started NaNo with a bang. In fact I managed to knock out 4300 words the first day and hit 8037 the second day. And all of this writing has been on the backup novel, which has frankly both charmed me and become incredibly weird. And with any words quickly written, they sound as if a small child wrote them.

But they are written and that is better than nothing at all.

Now as for today...I wrote nothing. Yep. Nothing.

Illness and lack of sleep have caught up with me. I want to write but as midnight looms in under an hour, three thousand words looks daunting. That and I have a headache.

So I shall let Jean have her lead for another day and resume my writing fury tomorrow. The rest will truly make the difference for my sanity and my health.

G'night.

Last day to make it or break it

It's 7:35pm and I am posing the following to myself: can I get nearly to the end of my story before midnight?

We'll see.

Wish me luck.

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Edit:

So NaNoWriMo just finished for me here in San Francisco [and the rest of the west coast] and I finished with 90,120 words [because I forced myself to write about 10k in 8 hours].

Last year I finished with 60,957 words, so huge progress. But once again, I didn't finish and I still have a lot of work to do. My story will probably take another 40k, which I plan to complete before December 19th.

So onto NaNoFiMo!


P.S. I plan to post a few choice excerpts in the next week if anyone is interested--after a bit of editing. I'll let you know when that happens.