Writing taking a back seat

So this week, my writing took a back seat to my life. Particularly my work life. It's been the busiest week of the semester, and naturally it falls in week 2 of NaNoWriMo. This made it even that much more difficult to keep on task. I feel behind around 10K words this week, which is terrible. I meant to write this weekend, but I just wanted to sleep, stress does that to me. I started writing tonight, and thanks to the dares thread on the forums managed to crank out 2K words in under 1.5 hours.

The End of Week One

I am ushering in week 2 with possibly a couple days off. Crazy? You ask, yes, and pretty much a novel suicide. I'm determined to make it through though, I'm about a day ahead as far as word count is concerned so as long as I write my daily total tonight (maybe a bit more) I'll only be a day behind come Monday AND I'm thinking I'll have enough time to write on Sunday evening, so...maybe I wont fall behind after all.
I hit 12K last night, it was quite an experience, I'm still all abuzz because I passed 10K so every word more than that is adding extra layers to the cake and making it all the more yummy.
Tonight I'm going to a meet up with the NaNo's in my area, I'm excited because I haven't had a chance to meet any of them yet. Here's hoping I actually get some writing done!

20% and counting

I was so excited last night because I finally crossed the 10K line! This is my third attempt at NaNo and this is the first time I passed 10K, I feel quite accomplished. Now I want to do a couple sprints tonight and tomorrow before leaving for the weekend...my computer is still going with me, but hopefully I wont have guilt monkeys swarming me to type because I'll be ahead.
We'll see...

Day 3 Update

Ok, so tonight I churned out 2063 words for a grand total of 7665. I'm still ahead of the game. At least I wrote more that 1667 unlike yesterday when I wrote less. I'm still ahead by 2664.
It was a pain the buttocks to find a place to write tonight. The library near my apartment is antiquated and doesn't even have tables near the wall so that I could use an outlet. Just my luck that my computer ended up dying within 10 minutes of being unplugged. It's a great computer, but I swear the battery life on this thing sucks jolly ranchers. I really want to get a new MacBook, but I can't afford it quite yet...soon though...soon.
So after finding a bust at the library, I decided to try the Starbucks, however, both tables near the outlet were occupied, so I didn't even bother to stop. I ended up working at my house, and got into a comfortable groove with my beanie on. I work really well with this hat, I'm thinking it will be my good luck charm.

Chugging along

Well day 2. I got distracted by fun things and didn't write as much as I had expected. That's ok, I'm still ahead of the game. Today I wrote 1493 words, for a total of 5602. That means I'm ahead of the 1667 plan by 2268. That's a respectable difference. I'm hoping to get even farther ahead by tomorrow!

And they're off, NaNoWriMo '08

Woot! Just finshed 2024 words from 1am to 1:50am. Now I'm off to beddy-bye. Night, night!

Halloween Dreams

So the contest is over at my office for Halloween decorating. Hopefully we won. An insane asylum is pretty crazy. I even had my straight jacket on and ran around screaming to be let out. Rather humorous, though I was mortified because I don't like acting silly around people I don't really know. It was fun though.
Tonight I'm planning to sit up until midnight to begin my novel. I probably wont last long, but I'd like to say that I at least tried. I'm excited and really can't wait for this day to be over with so I can go home.