Slow but steady.
I'm at a little more than 7,000 words on the new novel so far this month. Behind where I need to be to finish NaNoWriMo, but further than I was a few weeks ago. That's got to count for something, right?
Writing during the week has been difficult. Work has been...stressful, and I've needed to come in early and stay late, just to keep up. That's obviously cut into my writing time, but it's also drained my batteries before I even have a chance to sit down at the keyboard for the day's words.
As a result, while on the weekend I built up to around a thousand words a day, during the week I've fallen back to a few hundred. Sometimes. If I'm lucky.
There's light at the end of this tunnel, though. I've got a week of vacation coming up. A full week, when I can write at least half the day, before house and family obligations pull me away.
It might not be enough time, even then, for me to catch up to where I need to be to reach 50K by November 30th.
But I'm going to try for it, nevertheless.
Hope your own writing is going well, and if you're trying NaNoWriMo, that you're slaying each day's word count, day by day.
Onward!
