Participate in NANOWRIMO

I’m half way through with 25979 words!

So, at 16,115 now.

Had to put in some extra time to get to this, have been making sure I write more than the daily goal of 1667 in order to catch up eventually, I hope!

... why I picked the “Participate” version of joining NaNoWriMo. I’d be lucky to get halfway with this monster. But I’m still plugging away, hoping to catch up a bit today, after 4 days of horribly sidetracking, delaying, time sucking emergency activities. Today’s the day to shoot for 10K (its a nice dream)

Still behind and closing the gap for sure.
I’ve got some excitement back about it too as I was starting to have a few doubts about my project…

So 20% of the way there but still quite behind :S

Enjoying the process, it’s really making me think about a lot of important things. Kind of like morning pages in a way but something more than that too.

<3

So I was sitting there, after being reminded on the 5th that it was November, and it’s not just about Turkey Day… and I thought to myself, hmm, I can bang out 50K words that mean nothing, suuure… nooo problem.
The first day was awesome. Despite my broken spacebar I’ve adjusted and spat out 3000 words of various plots. Yeah, I don’t even have a plot yet. :/
But the following days are getting hard. It’s like hacking through rock. The distractions are everywhere. And worst of all, I don’t have this kinda luck! Ever! Consistency? 2K words every single day? I don’t even have any dialogue yet. Because apparently I don’t know conversations well enough. And I can forget about local meetups. :P :(

And yet, I hammer away at it, because I want to see if the characters will come to life and do their own thing…
Part of me thinks it’s brilliant, and part of me condemns it to the back of the basement because it’s got the stink of my personality all over it… :/

But I intend to spend this evening doing some serious catching up :D

My project is on memory & getting to know myself better through writing and wow, all sorts of things are coming up that are just reminding me so much of the essence of what/who I really am. It’s really great.

I’m well on target too :D

I wrote 4577 words on the first day, and I’m really enjoying it! Just a bit worried about what will happen when next week starts and there will be a lot of other things to do…

I’ve written 2189 words today :)

I’m writing about things very close to home & am using this as a healing experience which will maybe make it harder but I have made it so deliberately.

I’ve enjoyed day one. Been waiting a while to be able to start…