Day Twenty-Seven Total: 6,798 words

It's like I'm not even trying! =)

Day Twenty Total: 6,695 words

Let's ignore the fact that I haven't written anything in ten days. I don't really believe it myself, but there you go. I'm hoping to be better from now until the end of the month, but I'm starting to think it's a lost cause and that I should give up.

I realise this is entirely the wrong attitude to have and that if I keep thinking like this I'm never going to manage. I guess I'm just letting real life get in the way of writing. I can't seem to get into the headspace. I haven't even gotten to the point where I hate my story yet.

I think I'm going to have to write on my birthday this year, too, and I tend to not do that. It sucks. But, I have first world problems, so I guess I need to focus on the fact that I still have the means and the opportunity to participate in this challenge... and hey, I should do this for all the people who can't. Nah, that sounds pretentious, over-dramatic and egocentric.

Anyway, at least I wrote something today. =)

Day Nine Total: 6,460 words

Writing these words was like paying lip service. Nothing really happened.

Day Eight Total: 6,325 words

All those words were written in the last hour. And I'm still behind and according to the stats I'm not going to finish this novel until January. Yay!

Day Seven Total: 5,073 words

Well, at least I finally passed 5,000 words. Always look on the bright side and all that. =)

And the Yarny and official counts synced up again. Hey, that totally means I'm making progress because it's decreasing the word count. =)

Day Six Total: 4,939 words

I wrote for like twenty minutes this morning and then... didn't really pick up the groove. But that's okay. Words are words. (I think that's my new motto.) Plus, I don't yet hate my story.

Fun Fact: The official NaNoWriMo counter is tallying my story up as 1 more word than the Yarny word count. I'm enjoying this while it lasts because as the word count gets higher, the difference gets greater, and usually goes in the opposite direction. I don't know how they define words. It's a complete mystery.

Day Five Total: 3,900 words

So I wrote today. Not much, but words are words.

Day Four Total: 3,504 words

Yup, that's right everybody. Day Four and I already didn't write words. I'm really rocking this year.

Day Three Total: 3,504 words

These are more like leftover day two words. I wrote them all before I went to bed that night.