Day 15 -Another MIlestone

I am officially 60% done. I made 30K words just now. I did it. With only 40% left, I will not stand in my own way. Each word closer to 50K makes me jump for happiness. I did it. I am doing it.

When: 1350 words during the girls nap time. 1650 words after they went to bed. (The trip to grandma's fell through)
What: 2 complete story arcs
How: Distracted by party planning and watching Eli Stone (yeah, I know, I shouldn't have)

Adapt? There is always room for improvement. I improve on little things that I can't even recognize. I have figured out what makes me go and what stands in my way. I am learning about myself in a way I have not learned since I became a wife and mother.

I am learning to be Me again. Thank you to NaNoWriMo. Thank you to all of my writing buddies. Thank you to my cheerleaders.

Day 14

Goal: 2k words (28K total)
Word Total as of this writing (27179)

I plan to write more before bed, but I wanted to do the housekeeping stuff first.

I did not get any writing done until after the girls were in bed. I stopped last night's writing mid story and was worried I might have a hard time picking it back up. It started off slow tonight, but I did catch up to the pace car and I finished that story. I have tomorrow's story in mind, it came to me while I was in the shower, so no pen to jot it down, of course. Should have used the wet erase makers cause now i have a shimmer of plot in my head, but it's not near as detailed as it was.

I will have to think on it and jot some notes down for writing tomorrow morning. The girls will be going to their grandma's house with DH. (Thank you!)

My goal is to write and get my quota done as early as possible and then get ready for the party @ 2. Last time they left for the morning, I wrote roughly 3K. So I think tomorrow will be a good day to get a bit further ahead.

Here's to hoping anyway.

Day 13 -25K

I made it to the half way point. There is no going back now, I can can only go forward. Just keep writing, just keep writing, just keep writing.

When: 10:30-11:30 and 8:00-9:00

Word Count: 25537

Day 12

Word count so far: 0.
To make my goal by the 28th, I have to write 1720 words every day until then. This makes me happy. Cause I can have nights like tonight and still make it.

My toddler and her daddy are fighting over bedtime. It makes me cringe. I don't know why I have this psychological reaction when I am the by stander. It makes me physically shaky. It is not like I expect it to escalate to the horrible things that go through my head. But I am seriously thrown off my game tonight.

If my NaNo was for adults I could turn the bad things into the book and go with the flow. But the nervous on eggshell feelings in my house do not belong to faery tales.

I'm trying to figure out how to write through this. But at least I am ahead of my goal and have a reasonable word count per night even if I don't figure it out before I pass out from exhaustion.

Front Loading is the greatest advice thus far. Yet another reason, I am thankful or my mentor.

Update: 646 words forced onto the page today (23275 total)

Day 11 -plans

I plan on trying out a write-in tonight. It's at the the Pflugerville library from 6-8pm. I'll have my mac and a green shirt with "Good Witch" on it. If you see me, feel free to stop by. I like knowing who is watching my progress. It helps with accountability!

I will be putting dinner in the oven so that it will be ready when K gets home. I will pass off the baby and hug the toddler good night and go write my heart out. I am thinking of leaving a little early, if my MIL is available to watch the kids between me leaving and K getting home.

I did not go to the 12 hour lock in because of the timing and I didn't think I would get much done with the distraction of fun/crazy people around. However, the Saturday morning I sent the family away I got a lot done, so I am going to see if sitting in a room with a lot of other writers will have the same benefit.

At the very least I will meet some cool writer types, I guess. But i do need to get one it.

My goal is to write 3K words today and get ahead if I can.

Expect updates after write-in.

UPDATE:
Only 5 people at Write-in, 4 serious contenders, 1 curious non-Nanoer (I am fairly certain she was not yet NaNo)
word count ranged from mine (20K) to Superman (310K). The other 2 were 30K and 48K. Holy padded word count batman.

I wrote 2200 word in 2 hrs at the write in and finished up another 1400 at home. (Needed to finish the arc.)

Word count: 3630 tonight (22593 total)

Day 10

I lost my place in my record keeping. I apparently wrote on Day 10, looks like quite a bit, but I can't remember doing it. NICE!!!

Word count: 18993

Day 9

Day 9 was book club. It was a scheduled off day, but I still manage to write 302 words. That's 302 words I did not count on!