NaNo Day Twenty~One Update

Feast or famine. It seems that the majority of my writing comes in fits and starts; I have gone as long as two days without writing this month only to come back on the second or third day and manage 2,000 to 4,000 words at a time.

My current word count has reached 36,769; I had really begun to once again fear I wouldn't make it to 50,000 but after this afternoon's session of close to 3,000 words I'm feeling energized again and have been able to visualize several new scenes to write next.

I would take absolutely nothing for the experience so far. Knowing that there is a deadline has continued to cause me to return to the keyboard even when I thought I had no more words inside me, well past the point when in the past I would have put it down altogether.

I'm very sad by the number of my writing buddies who began this journey with me and have since disappeared along the way. I especially hate this as I really feel had they managed to stay the course for the first couple of weeks they would have found a second wind just as I have. You are missed, my friends. . .