Well, here we are in November, which means it’s now NaNoWriMo. I’m plugging away on my novel, staying on pace, but not building up much of a cushion.
Part of my problem is that I haven’t been able to get started writing very early in the day. I had grand plans, you see. I was going to stay up late on Halloween and try to get an hour or two of writing in before going to bed. So while I was waiting for midnight to roll around, I decided to work on some more userpics. Which was a fine plan…until I dropped off to sleep at about 11:45. Woke up groggy and disoriented at about 2:00 am with my netbook still on my lap, and just gave it up and went to sleep.
And then we had shopping plans (needed to hit a few post-Halloween sales so we could restock on little treat bags and toys to put in them, that sort of thing) and I didn’t get to sit down to start writing until about 10:30.
Needless to say, things haven’t improved since then. But I’m still keeping pace (so far), even though what I’ve written so far is awful enough that I really do want to start over.
So to console myself, once I’d made my word count last night, I made a few more userpics:
And I also rounded up as many of my past NaNo userpics as I could find and plopped them all into my Flickr folder. Which you can find by clicking on the “Eat. Write.” icon below:
And finally, I’ve changed my banner for the month of November. I’ll be using the one I made for NaNoWriMo all month this month.
And that’s probably enough procrastination for one night. Back to making NaNos….
(Anyone else NaNo-ing? How’s it going?)
For the last three days, my average is 801 NaNos per day. Clearly, not going all that well. Still I forge ahead and hope for the inspiration to log 4,000 NaNos per day for a few days like I did last year in order to catch up. Some of the complete NaNos are worth keeping, the others are icky.
Well, 801 is better than zero, right? And you did a great job of coming back last year. Keep writing! I know you can do it!