NANOWRIMO UPDATE

It's day 20, and it's getting intense. I can tell that I am starting to panic, because I am posting and catching up on email and laundry, but maybe that's just needed processing time. Honestly, it is obvious that I am procrastinating! So I need to make this brief.

There have three days that I worked that I did not write.

I have started reading pep talks, available without a signing in, and they are really great.
Talking points: don't watch tv, make time, any time to write, your paper/screen doesn't talk, so if it just you and the paper.. (the problem might be you - give yourself a break!), read, write,., keep going, write tangentially, be fearless, don't edit, don't criticize (that will come, later)!

So I have a 7 day badge and am aiming for the 14 (by a glitch, if you write late like me, there is no forgiveness if you post on time, as it counts as the next day😭). I have the 10K badge and have a significant way to the 40K and winner badges.

I have written 17,906 that are now involved in a somewhat convoluted but slowly advancing story line. My characters have made at least one friend and with a plot dry spell for 2 days where I talked more about them as I stalled for ideas of a plot, I went to bed with character arcs that will hopefully get me to a superficial story at least. I will have to be careful that it is not too boring, but that's for later!

I have had on my bucket list to write a novel for decades. When I began, I thought I could invest a little 250 words and day and write 7500 words/ 30 pages. I did not understand the winners of this exercise, and that my obsessive side would bring me past that by now and more. Thanks to Alex, Emily and Scarlet for arranging a meeting with strangers in a coffeeshop that first Thursday. I am closer to imagining writing that novel than ever. The trouble is sleep and exercise have gone by the wayside, and I am running out of time. It is tough!

It would not have been as tough if I had written 1667 words a day from the beginning. My graph is start to look like it might be heading back to the intended trajectory, but it is taking massive investments of time and energy, and given my night shifts begin tomorrow, I am more than a little scared.

The distance between doable and done is expressed in the equation 33,340-17906=15434. That's 1667+1403=3070. With 4 day shifts, I wrote 0 for 4 days. With four nights, this might be difficult. But 3000 on nights is better than leaving 6000 for the last 4 days!

My last math stats, and then I am off to write. I have written the most between 10 and 11 pm. I average 11 words per minute. I write at home, given no portable device but my phone. I have averaged 895 words a day, with a complete date at this rate on December 26. But that is just the gauntlet they throw on NaNoWriMo. The last two days have been my high counts: 2931 and 2921. I finished them both a just before midnight. Today I am going to break that record. I am aiming supra3000, and need to go to bed by 23:00. Today's count is already at 0, as if they mean to mock me. They don't know me. I am stubborn. I am willful. I can do things that seem impossible. I can push myself. I have to push myself. I have plans for December. November 2019 is the month to write my first novel! Wish me luck!

Editor's note:
as of 23:11 tonight, I have a new record of 3475 words, my count total is 21, 381 which is more than a thousand words a day, and the complete date is now December 17th! A demain!