Whose idea was it to have Nanowrimo in November?

My husband’s birthday is in November – his 50th birthday, so we partied for TWO weekends. And then there’s Thanksgiving. To say it’s been challenging to write is an understatement, what with work, family, and parties…but it’s SUPER FUN!

I’ve set a goal for myself to write a “novella,” (7,500 to 40,000 words)  instead of a novel (60,000 to 100,000 words). I wanted to set myself up for success, afterall!  So I targeted 25,000 words and averaged it the number of days in November. Here is my excel sheet to monitor daily progress:

Nov	goal	actual	balance
1	834	300	534
2	1668	368	1300
3	2502	2218	284
4	3336	3327	9
5	4170	3870	300
6	5004	3870	1134
7	5838	4401	1437
8	6672	6014	658
9	7506	6440	1066
10	8340	7603	737
11	9174	on the road, wrote in word
12	10008	9122	886
13	10842	10682	160
14	11676	11201	475
15	12510
16	13344

As you can see, I have to write at least 475  more words tonight. So here I go! I hope you are enjoying the process and making progress. Once in awhile, I have to remind myself to HAVE FUN and not stress about the word count or listen to Monkey Mind! 

 

Just keep writing!