My word count for the month is 36,328 with one more day to go. Today I wrote 6311 of those words. It may sound impressive but it doesn’t get me to 50k.
I don’t think I’ll be able to write thirteen thousand words tonight and tomorrow so I won’t win. However, I don’t see this as a fail. I wrote when I could. There were some days I wrote over 3000 words. There were also plenty of days where I only wrote a few hundred words, or none at all. But I still wrote.
Pain and feeling down plagued me this month. My motivation fled and my muse went into hiding at times. I complained bitched and moaned often but I kept going.
Frustration abounded. Anger hovered. Negativity intruded. I wrote through it all.
Today I wrote an unexpectedly large amount of words (after several days of not writing) and right now my back is paying for it. But hey, the words are on paper!
No, I probably won’t win Nanowrimo but I was able to write in spite of all the bad stuff, so I sure as hell didn’t lose.
Writerish Ramblings 
Kristi, you got me feeling ashamed of myself. Lately, my largest count is 1132, and that’s just because I was on a roll. I didn’t participate in NaNo, but your all out effort has made me realize I could do much more than I’ve been doing.
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Perhaps you could do more but if you push yourself too far there is a danger of burnout. If it wasn’t Nanowrimo season and I tried to write this much, then after a month I wouldn’t want to write again for a long time!
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