NaNo Week #2 - More Words, More Sleep, + Less Motivation.

NaNoWriMo so far has looked like this:

week one: WORDS! SUCCESS! I LOVE NANOWRIMO! I AM SO HAPPY I SIGNED UP!

week two: Words. Exhausted success. Remind my why I signed up for this, thought it'd be "fun," and go for double the word goal? *headdesk*

(Missed week one of my NaNoWriMo blogging series? Read it here!)

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day seven // 5,297

insane writing marathon day goal achieved.

THE FIRST WRITING SATURDAY OF NOVEMBER! *throws confetti*

Saturdays are the days when I wake up late, and then proceed to write crazy amounts of words. This Saturday's goal? 5,000. (And I did it. Yess.)

I'm still confused about my plot and I think my plot's scared of me for some reason, but it's working. Slowly. I kinda know what I'm doing. Kinda.

Honestly I don't think any of us NaNoers know what we're doing to be honest.

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day eight // 3,970

I ate pizza, went to bed early, and solved a murder mystery.

I credit pizza to all my success for today because that's what I ate for lunch.

But actually I really didn't want to write today. At. All. It was one of those days that I got really rather confused at why I wanted to do NaNoWriMo in the first place because it's SO HARD.

I sat and whined at the computer and glared at my document. Then a friend messaged me, and we proceeded to solve a murder mystery. This got me almost 4,000 words and I'm endlessly thankful.

Also, I went to bed before midnight the first time in nine days. Look at me being all responsible.

(AND I HIT 30K!)

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day nine //  2,176
all my motivation got stolen by a writing beast. *sniff*

I got attacked today. It was a horrid beast, covered with slime and motivation-sucking tentacles. I sat there, hunched at my computer, ready to write, when--

--IT STRUCK! Out of nowhere the beast latched itself onto my head. Everything around me blurred. My eyes closed. 

When I opened them, the beast was gone... and so was my motivation. So this was me the whole day: 

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day ten // 4,102

In which I stay up late and spill pizza everywhere. *sigh*

Today was a pretty awesome writing day. I wrote lots of words, and I also feel pretty good about the words I wrote. 

I also reached a new record on the number of words typed in ten minutes. 619 words in ten minutes. I'm not quite sure how it happened and I think most of them are filled with nonsense, but, hey! It works. xD

And since I love pizza, I had this fantastic idea one night to randomly bake a frozen pizza at ten. (thank you, dad, for agreeing to this. :P) So I baked it. I carried it into the living room so we could all feast together.

Then the cutting board tipped. 

And all the pizza landed face first on the carpet. The new carpet we had bought two months ago. *headdesk* (Thankfully it came out well. And the pizza still tasted good.) 

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day eleven // 4,160

wow, two good days in a row can this really be possible + I HIT 40k!

Another successful day! *dances around* (I'm just waiting to hit my slump, now. It's going to come any day. :P *braces self*) 

Nothing special happened today. besides the fact that I went to bed before midnight for the second time this month AND I HIT 40k! Just a normal writer's routine:

write twenty words.

check Twitter.

and Facebook. 

update NaNoWriMo word count. 

ask for a Word War.

answer some emails. 

see if my word count has grown since the last time I updated. 

nope.

write some more. 

repeat until I somehow get to an insane amount of words.

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 day twelve // 1,710

I FINALLY HIT A SLUMP OF SORT AND ASKDJF;ALSD WORDSS.

Gah. 

Words.

Help.

Why.

Did.

I. 

Sign.

Up.

For.

This.

Insanity. 

*collapses*

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day thirteen // 672

more writing slumps + I'm scared of tomorrow.

"Why is Katie scared of tomorrow?" you may ask. 

"Why?" I say. "Because this is why." *points below*

AIMEE AND I ARE TRYING TO WRITE 10,000 WORDS TOMORROW SO BASICALLY WE'RE INSANE AND I THINK I'M GOING TO DIE.

I'm doing this with Aimee from To the Barricade, and I'm kinda sorta a lot freaking out. I've had two not so good days in a row, and I've never written 10,000 new words in a day. I've done rewrites and some edits, but ON A CLEAN DRAFT? Hahaha, no. I'm nervous. Really nervous. And excited. But mostly nervous. xD 

So if I don't answer comments until Sunday, that is why. You can find me hunched over my computer, fingers flying and typing nonsense.

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days I went to bed before midnight: 2/7 (HEY LOOK BETTER THAN LAST WEEK.)

highest word count in a day: 4,160. 

lowest word count in a day: 672.

snippet: (I'm really bad at remembering to save snippets for blog posts so I just had to through together a passage quickly. Also I really don't like sharing snippets because I'm an insecure writer.)

obstacle of the week: Not wanting to write. At all. Especially Thursday and Friday. Just... CAN I IGNORE THE WORDS? My word count will somehow increase anyways, right? Right?!

best part of the week: Hitting 40k! Because that's a lot of words to write in eleven days and I'm proud of it.

NaNoWriMo blog posts: Aimee talked about painful WEEK ONE NaNoWriMo realities. They're all true. *hugs post*

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NaNo is insanely hard and difficult and creativity-draining, but I'm still kinda glad that I signed up. By the end of the month I'll have a novel (a messy one but editing comes later). A whole novel! So that's a pretty good reward. 

If you're behind, don't stress. Well maybe stress if you're trying to catch up. But, no. Life is crazy. (I'm very blessed to be homeschooled and fast and writing and just generally having lots of time.) Try to write something each day, even if it's a couple paragraphs. You got this. *hugs and pizza* *because pizza is always appropriate for every situation* 

YAY FOR WRITING AND NANOWRIMO. 

- Katie Grace
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