I have had a good two days previous to today. A 4k- and 3k-word day. I'm still way behind - I need to write just about 3,000 words a day until the end of the month. Today I have written a total of 36 words so far. And I'm just so tired. Every instinct in me is telling me to not write today, just go to bed and sleep it off ( Read more... )

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I now have 10 zero days. That doesn't include today, which has the least so far, but hopefully I will pull at least a 1k day, the minimum I want to call a day. TEN! ZERO DAYS! No matter how much I tell myself that really I only wrote 17 days last year, I don't want to put the dead days all in a row like that. I am so far behind right now that I ( Read more... )

A few days ago, after grocery shopping, I was stocking the fridge. I had gone overboard, as usual, and bought too much food. In order to make enough room, we had to take a big bottle of water out of the fridge. It was placed on the floor for the moment. It ended up sort of blocking both the refrigerator and the left-hand cabinet, due to the way the ( Read more... )

I know I can do it, I've done it before ( Read more... )

Why am I not writing my novel? I have been ably procrastinating ALL DAY. I managed just under 2700 words for the first day of November. My intention was to not only write 2000 words a day, but to try to get 10,000 words done this first weekend, since my mom is visiting from the States this week and I am on sight-seeing duty (like I'm complaining ( Read more... )

I was counting down the hours (as you know), I was counting down the minutes, I was gearing up and so so excited. I got home later than I expected tonight, since I went out to watch a movie instead of plotting my book. No problem, no rush. I have thirty days, after all. A few minutes after midnight, I was checking my email, double-checking in on ( Read more... )

I planned on trying to finish reading a book I am nearly done with. I have a few more job applications to send out. I should have placed an online grocery order to be delivered over the weekend. I want to put away a pile of paperwork, since I have guests coming next week ( Read more... )

I have a simplified plot. Well, more like an idea for a story. And I just hope it will be funny and readable when I'm done. I don't want to have to wait to share, like the (unfinished) novel from last year's November. Part of me is afraid to share the idea, afraid to think about it too much. It is fragile, and it is goofy. And the subtle plot twist ( Read more... )

Have I given up and stopped the farce that I would finish NaNoWriWe? Apparently, yes ( Read more... )