NaNoWriMo 2018 recap

For the fifth year in a row, I participated in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), and for the second year in a row, I wrote fewer than 50K words in November. In fact, I wrote fewer words than last year's 30K. This year was particularly disappointing because I thought that 20K words was a realistic target, but I didn't even reach that goal. :-(

As you may be able to tell from the chart above, most of my progress came on the weekends. My word count barely budged during the work week. I at...