Day, um, 6 or something? I've lost count?

Amazingly, good sleeps make it so much easier to write. 557 words in about half an hour's time, which seems to be my general best pace. And I'm not done with the day.

I was a lot less cranky when I woke up this morning, having actually SLEPT last night. Especially since my total wordcount is only a few hundred behind the 1667/day average; I keep comparing it to the 2k/day goal count, where I'm basically a day's count behind, but that's silly. Well. I alternate between thinking that, wordcount be damned, writing every day will be my own personal nano victory (so that even if I only get five hundred words a day from now on, leaving me with less than 20k words, I still have defeated my own personal "just give up" demons), and thinking that zomg I must get the 50k or it Does Not Count.

Obviously, the best thing will be to write every day *and* get 50k. Though that does not allow for any off days, or busy days, or holidays, and it doesn't allow for the fact that I have gotten rusty at the whole Writing Words Down thing and it's kind of like running a marathon when the best you've done in the last few years is walk to the mailbox and back, except for how it's not quite the same, but still.

(I am a touch babbly. Can you tell?)

Will definitely probably hit 10k this weekend; with luck, today. Which is a fuckton better than I've done the last few years of NaNo. So go me \o/

ETA - I horribly miss, however, the things that one can do with a laptop. Like tilting my chair back, instead of sitting up straight. Or like going outside, where it is nice and sunny, and writing there. Or going to write-ins. But I do not have a laptop and I haven't figured out how to get back to writing longhand (there is logistical issues, namely the fact that my writing-dominant hand is so close to my stomach that notebooks etc would have to be intersecting my body for me to write on them) and so I am stuck with what I have. Sigh.

I am awesome \o/

Today I:

a) conquered a Pattern of Evil for someone on ravelry (and it really was hideously written; my eyes were crossing trying to figure it out)

b) managed to get 700-odd words in one half-hour sprint, and 600 in a later 20-minute sprint

c) got not only the desired 2k words today, but 3k -- 3122, to be precise

d) which also put me over 10k total words! (11258 total, which is also only 750 words shy of the 2k/day goal I was setting)

My favorite bit was ... I won't c/p the words here because the execution sucks. But I love the concept.

Basically, I had already decided that (since I was poking loving fun at Valdemar anyway) the unicorns should come from this sacred Grove. Which is where our band of heroes is headed to try to see if there happen to be any unicorns hanging about.

My brain decided that there were trees still there, even though there is a crater a mile deep and some distance around from the Grove (think a semi-physical magic bomb, except that the trees were left standing).

Then I decided that the magic bomb of doom had turned the trees to something like glass (cribbing shamelessly from the Jade Sea in Guild Wars).

...and then I found myself writing about how the whole thing was basically one gigantic windchime.

I never would have come up with that in a million years of planning. Lizard hindbrains are awesome sometimes.