I need some inspiration and help

[nanowrimo-dave.livejournal.com]

Hey there, everyone; I'm a professional journalist for a small circulation paper in the Twin Cities. I really want to succeed in NaNoWriMo but it's getting harder and harder to both finish chapters, develop plot, and fact-check/interview/write all my normal articles (about 3-4 each week). I knew this would be hard, but I never knew that it would be this mind-bogglingly stressful.

Being a writer -of any sort- already, is making this hard.

Now, for the next three days, I have HUGELY busy nights and days, where I've been tapped to help my mother clean out her house as well as I have a lecture to attend tonight about which I need to write an article on how the tobbacco industry has been targeting young gay men in recent years to refresh their waning customer-base.

AAARRRGH!

Please, people, I need some encouragement and something to make me feel a bit hopeful about all this.

I'm very stressed and could really use the knowledge that I can succeed. Heck, I don't even know if what I've written already has been any good!

<sigh>

Please help...

Yours,
Sylvan (Dave)