NaNo Progress Report: Week 2
Week 2 is going swimmingly for me, somehow, for some reason. *Knock on wood* I really would like to not jinx it! I did get off to a shaky start on my first 3k day, life got in the way quite badly and I didn’t meet my quota. Surprisingly, that was the first time that happened, and it didn’t bother me nearly as much as I expected. On good days, I write past my sprints to finish up scenes or add something I think I’ll forget. On bad days, I push myself to my quota and tell myself I’m grateful I have a cushion.
My favourite thing about week two is that fact that I got to knock 1k off my 5 day’s with quotas, you wouldn’t believe how much easier it is to write 3000 words vs. 4000. Hallelujah. My least favourite is that I had to take Tuesday off for my Convocation (yay!!), so I have to give up a weekend day to stay on track, and I need those to edit my Fae story. But I shall triumph! And it was awesome to walk the stage, so I’m not all that upset.
I’m still managing to balance, but I am noticing a lot of things have been neglected in the face of NaNo. I have very little time left in my day after I get my to-do list done, i.e.: write, exercise, watch my shows, do my little around the house chores. Yes, I could take TV off that list and have more time for other things but I don’t want to. I’m allowed to veg a little after writing. So there.
My November is crammed full -you should see my social calendar, not just my writing calendar! I’m starting to feel the pressure but I’m oh so happy that I made a schedule for myself in the beginning. The bulk of my 50k goal is complete, had I not created a progressive schedule starting at 4k quotas then working down to 1k quotas in a four week timeframe I would be woefully behind and very uneager to continue. I like to start strong and finish on time. I’m a better sprinter than a long distancer, that’s for darn sure!
Here’s my Week 2 progress:
36343 / 50000 words. 73% done!
Lessons learned during week 2:
My lack of knowledge about my current genre is starting to hit me and I’m having difficulty moving my story forward in the way I’d like; scene transitions aren’t feeling right and the progression isn’t what I’d like it to be. At least it’s just draft 1 and moving forward it what matters!
Story #2 has morphed, of its own bloody free will, into either a novella or full out novel; editing after NaNo may become my life’s work
7 stories in 50k isn’t going to happen; my goal for today was to finish story #2 and move on, but the resolution just started climbing yesterday. Arg!!! It’s taking up a lot of my word count but I’m ok with that, I was just hoping to have more material at the end of November
Fun thing that happened: I have a new challenge when I sit down to write during the day: Cat M and I are at war over my desk chair. I am at war with a cat and I am barely winning, and only because I am almost 20 times heavier than her. And I have a major competitive streak so I need to make my daily word counts. Even though she’s so cute looking up at me from my seat. Am I the only one that suffers from this animal affliction?
Keep going NaNoWriMotars! And good luck!
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