Well, here it is. November 29th. In previous NaNoWriMo years, I've been done by now. Finished. Waving my "winner" banner in everyone's faces. Savouring the triumph and all that jazz.
Yep. Here it is. November 29th. And I'm at 36,500 words. That's 13,500 words shy of "winning" by writing 50,000 words by midnight on November 30th...yeah, in a mere 26 hours.
So, the question is: Is it possible to write 13,500 words in 26 hours, get a few hours of sleep, homeschool three boybarians, and complete the remainder of my extensive "To Do" list, all by midnight tomorrow night?
Sigh.
Why am I lagging, you ask?
Let me count the ways...
1. I was sick with a nasty cold and sinus infection for a complete week...
2. We did a lot of entertaining at the beginning of the month, which included a lot of cleaning of a very dirty house...
3. My Brave Writer class (Literary Analysis: Anne of Green Gables) has sucked a great deal more time from my writing than I had planned. It's a hoot to teach, but it gives me little time left over for writing...
4. Almost everything that I have written has also been edited at least once and posted online, so in a way, I've done double the work...
5. I've had a huge upswing in my own essay grading business, so that's taken a good deal of time, too...not that I'm complaining...
6. My chiropractor was out of town for two weeks, thus my neck and upper back are in constant pain, making typing difficult....
So, yeah. I'm not done. Nowhere near. Either I can take all day tomorrow and type my little heart out (and drive both my chiropractor and my family up the wall), or I can resign myself to abject failure.
Which one would YOU choose?
Okay, okay already--I'm getting offline to go write more of my novel. Sheesh. Who knew you were so pushy?
Blogging when I should be NaNoWriMo-ing,
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