Tips for NaNoWriMo Success: Let others' word counts inspire, not discourage.

You've been working hard on your NaNoWriMo novel. You're feeling pretty proud of your word count. Heh. Look at that loud mouth from the forums, she's only got 100 words. You showed her. Then you notice that your other friend has double the number of words that you do and your little word stack looks sad in comparison.

Here's the thing: Some people write faster than others. That's just a fact.

You've got two choices. You can look at the word counts of your friends and say, "What? Bob has 10,000 ...