NaNoWriMo Day 9 – Schedule shuffling & plot pains (hand pains too!)

So we're sitting on Wednesday of week two. How are you doing? I've hit a few bumps in the road. 

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For one, my schedule ended up being thrown off, so I'm wrote with Caro on Saturday which was supposed to be an off day. By no means a bad way to spend a few hours on a Saturday morning, it just means my official attempt at a Monday to Friday only schedule is now gone. At least there are eggnog lattes, though sadly they aren't as good as they are back in Nova Scotia. Still addictive, though. Enough to, say, go out earlier on the weekdays to leave the distractions of working from home to enjoy those of the coffee shops.

The other problem I had hit was being at the mid-way point of my "list of scenes I want" and only being 29% through my word count. I've had some great advice from @meganwrites1 and my dear friend Claire as to how to beef it up, which both are working wonderfully (Going back, I realized that I was so focused on keeping everything short, I didn't have a character make a single internal monologue). I also managed to come up with a couple of other scenes that simply slipped my mind or came about because of the lovely ladies' suggestions.

Unfortunately, by the end of the writing session Saturday I was in pain. Problems with my left hand flared up and decided that, if I wasn't going to take a break from writing, it would make me. It benched me from my day project, and prevented me from getting a good word count in on Monday night. All is well now, though, so hopefully I can get back on track.

Until later fellow NaNo-ers.