Thanksgiving crunch and keeping up momentum

[katelyn27.livejournal.com]

Originally posted in my local forum:
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Oh my gosh you guys! Doesn't the world realize that it's November? It's NaNoWriMo for goodness sake! And yet ... life continues to march on. I still have to get up in the morning and go to work, still have to do the dishes and pay the bills, still have to nag the kids about their homework and drive them to their karate lessons. *dramatic sigh* I have managed anyhow, somehow, *so far* to do okay. I've stayed fairly on track and churned out the words.

Then the fifteenth happened. I think that is what it was. We passed the half-way mark. My word count was pretty good. I totally lost my ooomph. Life kinda demanded my attention, and I was tired, and I deserved a day or two off, right? I am at two days straight now of not a single word written. My daughter comes home from SDSU on Monday evening. The kids are out of school for the week. There is grocery shopping to be done, bread to bake and Turkey to cook.

Suddenly I am feeling pretty overwhelmed, and not nearly as "ahead" as I was feeling. I am *totally* excited about NoWD and am hoping that will be the thing to push me over the threshold, but I'm not feeling the confidence I hoped I would be. My story is floundering, my characters whisper to me, but not the things I want them to whisper, and life ... life just keeps on sticking it's nose in.

So, what's happening in *your* NaNo world? How are you dealing with the upcoming Holiday crunch and fitting writing into the crevices of time life allows you? How is your morale and excitement level? Tell me something inspirational, or share your woes.

Anybody else thinking they are going to definitely make the time for next Wednesday mornings early day write-in?

*Shaking myself up, doing a few mental jumping jacks, flexing my typing fingers and getting ready to give my inertia a good swift kick.*

---- several hours later -----

I literally had to sit in a dark room, turn off the music, turn my screen black and type in a dark gray font so I could see where my cursor was, but not have the words glaring up at me from the screen ... but I managed to knock out almost 4000 words tonight!

Comments

[ayumidah.livejournal.com]

congrats on the 4000! I've actually remained on target but I'm feeling unimpressed by my story. It's... I don't know, a little bland at the moment. Ugh. But I'll fix that up in December.

[katelyn27.livejournal.com]

I so empathize with the feeling unimpressed. Hang in there!!!!

[ayumidah.livejournal.com]

thanks, you too!

[katelyn27.livejournal.com]

My word count tonight wound up at just around 7000 total ...

I've got 42434 words on project 1 (the one that required a black screen cause it was KILLING me) and 24,702 words on project 2 I'm about 5 days behind on project 2 & 5 days ahead on project 1 - that makes me about right eh?

[dexypunk.livejournal.com]

I've got an eight month old baby who's breastfed AND going through a clingy phase, I've been working half days at work now and then and spent numerous days away from home. I've also been trying to finish a nursing course. And keep up with housework. And maintain a reality TV blog. So I've been busy. NaNo has almost been a respite, it's so completely unlike my actual life. I'm 5k words behind, which is annoying as I caught up on Tuesday and then fell behind again. I think I might be able to manage to finish. I hope so!

[albreda.livejournal.com]

Woot! Good for you! We're doing T-day early, so we can concentrate on NaNo for the rest of the week. >:)