It has been a wild ride this month with many twists and turns. Through two weeks of sickness trying to write while the world cup games were on, I had many obstacles to overcome. However, the biggest obstacle was that I switched stories part way through the month.
I really need to take a step back from the main project I’d been working on and reevaluate what I want with that story before I go back and fix it. So, in the meantime, I am working on a new and hopefully shorter project.
All in all, I made it to the end and won NANO this year which feels good but I am planning to write as much or more in December to try to hit a quarter million words for the year so I’m far from done. My new story already has 5k words done on it and I’m loving it so far. I also dug back into some physics books I’d set down in an attempt to add some reality to my stories and as inspiration. That is also going well.
The final thing I will note is how exhausted I am. After the first three days of November I felt an increase in overall exhaustion, however, that is nothing compared to the way I currently feel, which is less about the writing and more about the introvert hangover I got from spending a week with family. That always takes a while to recover from and makes me want to go to bed at 9 pm or earlier every night. I might take a day or two off or do some lighter writing days to try to rejuvenate but I’m going to keep on going otherwise.
I hope those of you that participated in NANO WRIMO this year did a great job and I will most likely do it again, though it is always difficult with the holidays.
I have updated the stats to add in the extra words that I didn’t initially count as I was only counting words on my main project for most of the month while tracking it all.
Raw Stats:
Day 1- 2,147 words
Day 2- 1,791 words
Day 3- 2,322 words
Day 4- 1,705 words
Day 5- 1,169 words
Day 6- 2,145 words
Day 7- 2,480 words
Day 8-1,119 words
Day 9- 650 words
Day 10- 1,882 words
Day 11- 2,027 words
Day 12- 4,057 words
Day 13- 3,017 words
Day 14- 1,525 words
Day 15- 1,509 words
Day 16- 1,091
Day 17- 2,069
Day 18- 3,370
Day 19- 542
Day 20- 82
Day 21- No Words
Day 22- 517
Day 23- 938
Day 24- 2,503
Day 25- 1,066
Day 26- 913
Day 27- 278
Day 28- 351
Day 29- 4,865
Day 30- 2,405
Total for the month- 50,535
