It’s been a full week of National Novel Writing Month, and, I admit, today wasn’t my best writing day: despite my best efforts, I only managed to crank out 778 words. But my overall word count on my NaNoWriMo website account dashboard is 15, 598 words (despite question marks over my word counts for this past Saturday and Sunday–I don’t remember how many words I actually wrote, then entered into my NaNoWriMo website account update function), so I’m still doing well–I’m five thousand words away from reaching 20, 000 words, and ten thousand words from being halfway through my novel. (That reminds me: I need to find, and bring out, my Bon Jovi CD, so I can play ‘Livin’ On a Prayer’ when I reach or surpass 25, 000 words.) But, because of today’s turnout, I’ve decided to extend my daily workday writing time by ten minutes, to give myself a better chance of getting to at least one thousand words a day.

OK, so I had a bad writing day today–well, bad compared to what I managed to accomplish within the last few days. I’ve just had to adjust my strategy to increase my chances of doing better for the rest of the month, and I know I’ll more than make up for today this weekend.