Ok I got maybe 2 hours sleep last night. I felt really jittery and weird this morning but as the day went on it passed. To be honest I don’t even feel tired. I confess I’ve been refreshing the news pretty much constantly, desperate for any crumb of good news. I guess we always knew that the only way Trump would leave the white house is kicking and screaming. It’s going to be a long few weeks I think 🙁

Anyway, enough of that. My tumblr is supposed to be a safe zone. Back to the words! Bizarrely they did still happen today. I know right? I’m as shocked as you. But no we still have not left Helen’s office. In fact we weren’t actually there at all because the whole of today was spent on a flashback to 1945 Praxis.

It’s times like these that I wonder why I’m writing this because nobody but me will ever read it, as nobody would want to. I mean seriously, a couple of thousand words on a flashback? I mean it had Nikola in it but no other show characters. It’s probably a bit too plotty at the moment (I’ll get to the OT3 stuff later) but I suppose I could always try and fix that in editing.

Words Written: 2,089
Current Total: 8,946 

Today was harder. Got to be honest I had nightmares most of last night, undoubtedly triggered by the election. I know I don’t usually mention it, tumblr is for happy things as I need at least one escape in life but man it’s a real worry. Sleeping tonight is going to be interesting to say the least. Anyway, it took me forever to actually start and I wasn’t very focused.

Still, all that being said I made par so I have maintained my ‘day ahead’ buffer which is nice. But no they have not managed to leave Helen’s office yet. Nikola is still telling his story about Praxis but we are reaching the end of his tale. We’ll probably leave the office tomorrow for … I don’t think I actually decided where I should have Lania hide out. Somewhere in Europe I think, Italy maybe.

Soon The Five (or rather the four because poor Nigel didn’t make it to the 21st century) will be storming the castle metaphorically speaking. That’s a Soon™ though because Nikola needs to get slapped first. Definitely planning a “I might have deserved that but not sure I deserved that” line hehe.

Words Written: 1,788
Current Total: 6,857

So yesterday was not a fluke!

Honestly you could knock me down with a feather. I did more writing! In fact I did pretty much the same amount of writing as yesterday! I’m a day AHEAD of pace! *falls over* like what is happening here? An overuse of exclamation marks obviously but yowzer.

There be words on the page.

Awful, awful words really. I did go back today and try and put in where people are standing. I am terrible at remembering to do description. I want to break up dialogue, ok now my character can do some thinking instead. Seriously it’s bad, especially as the scene isn’t changing (they are still in Helen’s office) we’re just having breaks for flashbacks as Nikola is telling a story. So obviously people are going to forget who is in the room and where they are etc.

Honestly I’ve always been terrible with remembering to describe but this is definitely a new low. Fanfic just makes me lazy I think because you guys know what they look like already *guilt, guilt* ok let’s not focus on that too much. I mean I’m not posting it so it doesn’t matter, moving on. WORDS!

Maybe if I just keep on writing the ability to describe will come back to me somehow, I mean I don’t think I used to be quite this bad… anyway no, it’s fine, it’s fine, perhaps when they are moving around a bit and not just talking it’ll be easier. I hope. We can always hope.

Words Written: 2,532
Current Total: 5,069

Back by popular demand for an audience of one (aka me) I’m not just going to do NaNo I’m going to ramble about it too 🙂

Honestly I didn’t know what to expect out of today. Oh, I made some noises about a DORG (day one ridiculous goal) of 5k but in all honesty if I’d written absolutely nothing I wouldn’t have been surprised. I’ve been the living embodiment of “yours for the taking, and then you choked” all year long. The words have just not happened.

So the fact that I managed to write anything is cause for celebration. The fact that I wrote the daily target of 1,667 is cause for a massive dance party. The fact that I wrote a bit more than that? Man I might just break out the icecream. Talk about a red letter day.

I guess today proved my hypothesis that a non-serious project, based on my current obsession, would be the thing that did the trick. Thank you Sanctuary! 🙂

Words Written: 2,537
Current Total: 2,537 (as it’s day one)