Well, here I am, having worked on my novel during National Novel Writing Month for exactly two weeks; in terms of word count, I did much better, yesterday and today, than I did last Tuesday and Wednesday. I am now at 40, 916 words altogether, meaning I am 9, 084 words away from 50, 000 words.

But I’m afraid I’ve focused so much on word count that I’ve more or less put the story aspect on the back burner; I’m still thinking about the story, but I’ve left out so much that I’ve planned to put in–that’s actually my biggest blunder for this year’s NaNoWriMo entry. Even now, I know I’m going to have a lot of work to do to make this story workable, much less marketable. But this is the first draft of this particular story, so I should know better than to expect too much–even if I’m still not feeling too good about the story.

But there are fifteen days left to National Novel Writing Month, so I’m going to make the best of it, and focus on the story aspect of my entry as well as the word count.