Let me lay it all out on the table. I didn’t make my 1,667 words today. I did write some, but not nearly enough. I actually managed to convince myself that I could have a slow day for a change and now I’m shutting down feeling guilty about it. Having said that, I had very good output this morning. I managed almost 450 words before I had to brave the blowing snow and go to work. The roads were no worse than yesterday but the drivers were. What is normally a 20 minute commute was 45 today (yesterday too, unfortunately). Such is life in a northern city, I suppose. I didn’t have any opportunity to write at lunch time so […]

I’m sure glad I’ve given up on planning what and when I’ll write. I would simply be disappointed and you know how I get when I’m disappointed. What? You don’t? Hmm, probably best that we leave it that way. So, we had our first snow of the winter season (or close facsimile) and it was a doozy. I believe we probably had four inches (approximately 9 centimetres) by this morning. I looked out my window and realized I couldn’t in good conscience write and leave the snow lying on the sidewalk. So, I reluctantly (and will much grumbling) went put on my winter gear and went outside to clean sidewalk. Since I live on a corner lot, I have a […]

So, according to the date, I should now be at 25,000 words to be on track. I’m happy to report that I’m significantly ahead of that number. I finished the day with xx,xxx words to my credit. Believe me, it feels awesome to be in control of my NaNoWriMo. I got some writing done this morning and what a difference plotting makes. I was able to knock off about 150 words despite only having ten minutes to work on the story. Obviously 150 words is a drop in the bucket towards hitting my daily total, but they are words I didn’t have to write later on. So, I had Scouts tonight and the boys were being somewhat trying. That’s alright, […]