The Bitter End

Looks like a lot of people have dropped out, while cruising the Nano forum postings. People on the forums started off at a tremendous pace, much like I have done throughout the beginning of Nanowrimo, but it seems like once they learned how doing 4,000 or 5,000 words per day caused them to burn out, they quit writing.

I also read posts from people who described how their lives were interfering. I remember back in that first time I achieved Nanowrimo's goal, in 2004, I had many entries that I had to catch up on because I was 'too tired' to write, or whatever. What I learned from doing this Nano, however, is that it's much more motivating and inspiring to write every day, even if tired.

I watch that blue bar on the website grow ever closer toward 50,000 and I keep on keeping on. It helped, too, that this year, I had my chapter-by-chapter breakdown. I never had to sit and wonder what I was going to write about because all I had to do was look at my 'outline.' There are still nine days left in this month, and I will still continue to write every day on this story. I had thought I might do two Nanos; I had it planned out that way, but I was never quite able to do 3,000 words per day, which is what it would have taken. So at least I will get this one completed by the end of the month, which has been my true goal all along.