on Word Counts

This month sucks.  I can say that with all affection because so much has ended up happening in November.  Not only is Nanowrimo happening, but also I have had to look for an apartment, start weeding through the garbage heap that holds my personal possessions.  Add to that the new World of Warcraft expansion released on the 13th, and my word count has been doomed from the get go.

I'm not giving up, not by any stretch of the imagination.  I still want to win, but I sit here blogging instead of writing, so I obviously have an issue with focus.   This morning I posted on my other blog, cleaned out the refridgerator, answered emails, updated the wiki, started adding songs to my computer playlist...and did a SMALL bit of writing.  What is it about novelling that gets me to do other things?

So yes, I have words down.  I don't much like this novel, I have to say, but I have almost 29k of it down, and five days to go.  Why am I not daunted?  Because I know that if I stopped procrastinating I could technically have it done tonight.  I write quickly, the words flow, but I have this problem with getting myself to let them flow.  Not sure how to fix that.  

I tried to make cupcakes with numbers to motivate me like I did last year.  Trouble was, I ended up eating those without numbers and leaving the numbered ones to rot because I couldn't get myself to right.  

Right now I work in 2oo word increments.  At the moment I am working up the gumption to get to 29, and then to 30.  After 30 comes the hard part.  The hard part meaning 31-50.

Hell, I'm not even witty in my blog anymore.  This month really has sucked.