Well, I think it is safe to say I will not reach 50K by November 30th. I just had too big an interruption by moving from Juneau to Ellensburg in the middle of the month. I had to pack and take the ferry down, and then drive across WA. Then when I got here, my aunt took me to Tri-Cities for the weekend. And now on Wednesday, we will be going to Tacoma for Thanksgiving.
I had thought I would get a lot of writing done on the ferry because there was no internet on the boat, so there would be nothing else to do. But the trip was so... utterly awful that I barely got any done at all. I think I wrote 3000 words the whole 4 days I was on the boat. My cabin was about 30 feet from the children's play area, so all day, every day, there were babies and toddlers screaming outside my door. I couldn't concentrate. It was rough seas most of the trip, too. It was very hard to concentrate when the floor was rolling under me hard enough to throw me off balance. And also, the bed I had to sleep in was the most uncomfortable thing in the history of bed-like things. I couldn't sleep at all in that bed. One night I slept a grand total of an hour and a half before I woke up and could not go back to sleep. It was terrible. So even during the times at night when it was quiet outside my room, I was so tired and felt horrible, so I didn't do any writing.
I'm not terribly upset by the fact that I probably won't "win" Nano. Winning was never really my goal. I really just wanted to use Nano as a jumping off point to start writing my own stuff again, and I did that. And I will keep on working on this story after November is over.
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