I can be proud of myself again! Par for NaNo would be 20k today and I decided to aim to get as close to that as possible.

It did not start well. I got about 700 words and then mum called. I thought it would be a quick in and out to say goodbye to my aunt and uncle but it took a lot longer. I then had chores to do when I got home and it was after lunch before I could begin again.

I did one sprint and then seriously considered quitting. I had about 1.2k but I resolved to do another sprint and that got me to around NaNo regular par. I wanted to quit but in order to hit the 30k on the 17th I was still short of that par. So I made myself do one more. I didn’t hit the 20k but I clawed back some of the words I am behind on.

I am hoping that tomorrow I will get fully back to NaNo par, so the last 4 days I can then split the extra day. Unfortunately there is a Wednesday in there which sucks. I have never been good at relentless consistency, but unfortunately I seem to have also lost my ability for high word count days to counter that. But I’m not out of the game yet. 10.7k in 5 days isn’t impossible. I’m going to need to do so much revision but that’s always the case, at least this is a starting point.

Words today: 2,449
Current total: 19,301