It is now day 10 of NaNoWriMo. To keep on the 50k track I needed to break 15k yesterday. I was a little bit behind (about 4,000 words behind). I slacked off the two previous days, not for because I didn’t want to write. But because I pulled a muscle in my lower back and the pain was pretty distracting. It was stupid, I should have been more careful….hell I should have asked my tall and handsome better half to reach it for me. Inside I pulled a toddler moment of ” I do it!” and oh I did it alright.
Thankfully I am feeling a bit better. Yesterday I was determined to catch up. So I did what anyone that many words behind does. I procrastinated.All.Day.Long! Finally sometime around 7 PM, I had enough of this dragging my feet bullshit. I poured myself a glass of wine, got a pillow to put behind my back to ease the pain, and found a LotR trilogy soundtrack on You-Tube (Pandora just wasn’t cutting it last night). The sound track was 3 hours and 30 some odd minutes long.
I opened up my Liquid Story Binder and went to work. At about the 3 hour and 20 minute mark according to the ‘video’ playing, I was officially at 15,601 words. Not only did I meet the goal, I passed it. I had started at about 11,880 words roughly.
I cannot believe I am actually doing this. In some ways it kind of feels like a dream. I’ve written on and off for just over eight years. This is my 8th attempt at NaNoWriMO. I have never ever finished any writing attempt or NaNo. HELL! I have never written this many words. I don’t think I have ever even written daily like this.
I gotta say….IT FEELS PRETTY DAMN GOOD! Even on the days where I just wasn’t feeling it as much, or these couple of pain filled days where I thought “eh I can skip right?” I didn’t. I wrote something, added to my story. Even if it was just a few hundred words.
Today, then it means to stay on track for word count I need just a hair over a 1000 words. I can do that.
Honestly I wanted to update on progress here sooner, but I was afraid I’d jinx it. I’m still afraid that something will break and I won’t finish. But a part of me really feels like I can win this time.
Hope you are all having a successful NaNo too.
The Forgotten Muse 