NaNo day 20 - fighting against a lazy Sunday

7:46 pm, and about a hundred words to show for it.  Plus, it was once again hard to convince myself to leave my bed this mor-afternoon. I wonder if leaving the house and being social is what pushes my moods into the basement the next day.

If I take the time to look at it, Thursday I was at school until five, leaving just enough time to come home and get something to eat before going to writers' group and getting my story critiqued, which despite being exceedingly beneficial to the writing process, is always an added source of stress. And Friday I woke up more depressed than I remember being for quite some time. After puttering about the house for all of Friday, I woke up on Saturday in a much better mood, which remained for most of the day and sustained me through going downtown to a write-in then doing laundry at a way too noisy laundromat. And today, I once again woke up without the motivation to do anything but sleep.

NaNo day 18 (and the start of 19)

Is it already the 19th? Glory. This month has had the strangest feeling of dragging past, but suddenly, we're nearing the end stretch. Which reminds me about that photography final assignment I've been neglecting, which is to document my experience with NaNo this year. I think I've journaled twice. Oops.

But anyway, after not meeting my goal for 3 days in a row (and not even writing anything 2 of those days) I somehow pulled a 5k day. I'm still not quite sure myself how I manged it. I woke up incredibly depressed and wanted nothing more than to go back to sleep so I could escape back into my dreams for a while. But I dragged my butt out of bed, knowing I had to make today count as far as my words went. So what did I do? Spent the next 3 hours googling bipolar. Yep.

NaNo day 6 - back on track?

After only writing about 1000 words on the 4th, and nothing yesterday (due to a close friend's wedding), I got my goal of 4000 today! That put me above my cheaty wordcount, and up to 13782. I am /never/ posting a wordcount before it's written again! If I do end up writing most of the day's words after midnight, my graph will just have to look strange. I can deal. :)

And I was really happy with myself, because I was writing along with @NaNoWordSprints on twitter and got 1000 words written in 20 minutes, until I realized that it was all introspection. Doh. That's what National Novel Editing Month in March is for!

NaNo day 3 - bad NaNo person

It's NaNo day 4 today, but I have a confession to make about yesterday. I'm a bad NaNo person. I told myself I wouldn't do this this year, but then I did.

two hours until it all begins

I've been meaning to write this for a while, but somehow just never got around to it. Really I've been meaning to write something--anything--on this blog for quite some time now, but yet again I've been living up to my least favorite part of the title. I think it started a while back with a post I started to write, but couldn't finish for various reasons. Somehow that created a mental block--I told myself I couldn't blog until I finished that post. Silly really.

So anyway, I left it right until the wire, but here's my NaNo pre-blog:

My goal this year is 150k. I fully recognize how crazy that is, especially with how badly I've been dealing with stress lately. I'm still going to try for it, but definitely not beat myself up if I don't make it. The thing is, every year that I do NaNo I further amaze myself with just how much I can do if I'm committed and believe in myself. So I don't want to slow down, or set a more reasonable goal, because what's the fun in reason after you've seen at least one crazy goal through to the end?

Anyway, I'm not staying up through midnight to get a head start on writing like I usually do; I want a good night's sleep, and the opportunity to wake up early and knock out a few thousand words before class. So good night, and sleep well: I'll most likely sprint with you in the morning. :)