Hello everyone!
I'm going to try and do one of these posts every day for the rest of the month, but we'll see how that goes. I've never been very good at sticking with things like this. However, I feel like this is a fun, easy way to keep you updated on how I am doing with my novel, and it doesn't take as much time to do as a vlog, which is nice for me because I don't really have enough time to film much right now.
As some of you may know, I am a University student, and I am planning on majoring in English. This semester in particular, I had some issues with my schedule, which ended with me having all English courses, and the majority of them are literature courses. You can imagine the amount of reading and writing I am being required to do. Plus, I have to keep everything straight in my head, and its getting more and more difficult as the semester goes on.
November, as it seems, is Essay Month. Every single one of my classes is requiring an eight to ten page essay to be written, and all of them are due during the same week of November. One of those classes also requires me to write a review for a play, which has to be at least two thousand words. Basically, what this means is that I am going to be writing like a mad woman over the course of the next couple of weekends.
Since I know that there are going to be a couple of days where I can't work on my NaNo novel (I mean really, I have to prioritize something that is worth over one third of my grade here), I have been trying to stay a little bit ahead. So far, that has meant that I am working on the next day's word count.
For example: Day five's word count is 8,333. Yesterday, which was Day Four, I hit a word count of 8,529. If I want to keep this up so that I don't fall too far behind when it comes time to write my essays, then today I have to break 10,000 words! Which I know I can do, because I have a friend who is waiting for my chapter update on Tablo, and if she doesn't get it, then I will never hear the end of it.
I'm just having trouble believing that I'm already almost one fifth of the way through my NaNoWriMo 2014 journey! This whole year seems to have been going by so quickly, and November is definitely no exception.
As of when I am writing this, which is at 9:30 in the morning, I haven't done any writing yet, so my word count is still sitting at the 8,529 from yesterday. I have two classes today, and will probably be home again around 2:30, at which point I will be sitting down to work on the sixth chapter of Scarlett. I will have plenty of time to write tonight, so I think that I will easily be able to hit my 10K goal for today.
How are you guys doing? Are you keeping up with the word count goals? Are you ahead? Maybe you've fallen behind. Don't worry, there is still the majority of the month to catch up if you have! You just have to push yourself a little harder!
Leave any thoughts or questions in the comments section, and as I said in my last post, if you have a Tablo, make sure to link it so that I can check it out!
Happy Novelling,
Helen.
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