I'm so proud of you all! :) Keep up the good work!

I'm trying to hit 20k today. I've felt a little unmotivated for the last three days... ugh. Maybe it'll pass once I get a few new ideas for the story.

I'm doing it and I'm failing at it sadly. Recent events have been so stressful they just sapped all my inspiration. But I'm still trying even though with my current word count I'll never finish it by the deadline.

I'm super pumped, last night I finally caught up to where I need to be to finish on time :3 Now I just need to keep up!

- I'm super behind too :( Broke 10k just yesterday. Have to more than double my word count in 3 days OTL Don't give up! I've been in this position before and still pulled through. Just gotta plan an all-nighter day ;)

Good afternoon NaNos! I hope that this three day weekend finds you excited to be writing! Let me encourage you and say that you all can do it!

I'm super pumped, I got into some caffeine yesterday and it was like seeing eternity! My characters came alive and told me exactly what to write. I had written them into a corner regarding a conflict they were having with some bullies in their village. But they took charge and resolved the situation without having to bust heads with their quarterstaves. Oh, there was fighting and broken ribs and bleeding, but my heroes didn't have to lay a paw on their foes or submit to the pressure of violence to resolve the conflict. And I got close to 30,000 words to boot. Yay!

Sounds awesome :B Today has been a super slump day for me. I'm struggling to keep up with my 1667. But, over the past hour I've been doing some brainstorming on how I want this thing to end, so here's to beating the slump!

Struggling this last three days, hit a snag. Have no idea on how to proceed and only got 400 words tonight, 500 yesterday and about 350 the day before. What I wrote is pure drivel, resorted to describing a shopping list for one of the main characters. Considered resorting to potty humor and resisted...haven't sunk that low.

Still super behind, but managed to get two 2k+ words days in, hopefully I can keep it up! GL everyone!

I have worked on my too-rebel-to-even-pretend-to-be-official NaNo project almost every day. I skipped two, one because I had a minor allergy/sinus thing happening and the other because I was too distracted and stressed out. I've made a huge amount of progress on developing the backstories of my six "mains" (which was very necessary) but I have just about maxed that aspect out. I am finding I don't want to work on any aspect of the main story (it's a big sequential series thing) because it involves a certain amount of political intrigue. The world is completely made-up and has a different kind of political system, but it's still triggering my anxiety right now.

I'm trying to decide if I can work on a different story or if I need to just take a break from writing completely. I don't really want to do the latter but I am not sure I can do the former. My head is still kinda stuck on the characters since I've been working on them almost exclusively this past year... That is, when I wasn't working on my templates, which was my main project.

Anyway, I'm just venting right now I guess. I'm sure I figure out what to do soon... It's just frustrating.

Wow, I'm gonna get to 40k words tomorrow, and I'm starting to think I won't be able to wrap up the story before I reach 50k. But that doesn't really matter, I guess... :p

- Writting a full novel in only 50k words is actually quite challenging. I've never completed anything in 50k words.

- Rebel rebel! I'm totally rebelling this year too, but it's getting me writing. Don't take a break from writing, then you'll just do and get into the habit of doing nothing! And that would be bad. :(

I'll make 40,000 in the morning. Time for bed. Congrats to all you who have reached that milestone! Keep trying folks! You can do it! Yay!

I reached 30k two nights ago :DD Pretty proud of how I've been doing lately! Whoot!

- w00t! That's like, double my word score! I'm still so far behind, and I won't have writing time tonight, or tomorrow :( This has been my problem with nano this year, no time to catch up on the weekends!

: Way to go!
: You can do it. Just keep plugging away as often and for as long as you can.

Finally got over my slump, hit 40,000. It's sliding down the razerblade of life from here on out.

- I keep plugging away at the wee hours in the morning, finally at 2 am I'll be like, ok that's it I need to go to bed, and I'll check my word count and it's less than 1667 :( at this point I need 3k words/day to win. My sister comes home from school next week, and I'm just not going to have time time for that. I was planning on trying to catch up tomorrow, but then I looked around my house and realised that it is a total disaster, and I can't let my sister come home to that, so I'm going to be spending most of the day cleaning instead. I'm not going to give up, but winning nano might be out of my reach this year.

I've decided to take a break until the 20th or 21st. I've got RL stuff I need to deal with and I am hoping that taking a step back from the project will help. (I worked on it the better part of October too so I feel like I might just be burnt out.) I've got a solid plan for what I will work on next if I find my muse and mood to still be resistant next week. I am already working on figuring out what I need for my other project and gathering notes but no proper writing has happened since the 16th.

Ugh, at this point I'm just trying to get to 50k as fast as I can and be done with NaNo. :s It's been a lot of fun, but I look forward to evenings when I can do something else than write.

- Yes, something else... editing! :P

I'm still sitting at 20k, so with 10 days left, I have to write 3k every day. Thaaaaaat's not gonna happen. Gonna have to bank on getting 6k+ on the days that I don't have to work.