My official #NaNoWriMo word count, at the moment, is 3,143. I felt lazy yesterday. Halloween and my partner's birthday usually leave me tired. This year I think the words were exhausted, in pain, but happy. We also had a friend leaving our little slice of heaven in Portugal and heading back to England so it was kind of sad as well.
I'm able to feel excited today about getting back to the world I've created and I'm already seeing parts where I can improve in the barely written but formally outlined story. Now is the time for writing though, and enjoying the process again. Now is the time to just have fun with it and later we worry about editing, about writing devices, and ensuring clarity. For now we rush to 50,000 and hope we come out of it all with something worth the effort.
Life has been far too much like being a grownup lately, with stress, worry, and more commitments than I thought I could handle. I've had some health problems as a result but I'm dealing with them and life. Because that's what big girls do, we get on with it. So now I get back to my day job and try to fight the temptation to just write 200 more that turns into 1000 more. My problem has never been meeting word counts, it's always been not being so eager I just write words because I find it so incredible. Words that may not be clear enough. But yeah, excitement is finally settling in. Let's see where it takes us.
