I feel like either my brains are about to fall out, or my eyes are. Not sure which. But I finished! Yay! Dang, but the last 1,000 words were the worst. I know there are a lot of “he said” and “she said” that will need to be ruthlessly weeded out in edits, but I am proud of myself. I wrote every single day this month. Every day. Even that one brutal 15-hour work day. Woot! Congratulations to everyone else out there who finished (Way to go Walkingstick! I know your son is proud.) Now I can finally get some rest.

Today’s Word Count: 5,376
Total Word Count: 100,025

Again, the writing flowed really well today. I hit my word count. The story is moving, and I am right in the middle of the action-packed ending. Is it sad that I feel like “only” having to write 5,000 words tomorrow is a good thing? I have three chapters left as well, one with quite a bit of action, and two wrap-up chapters. But I’m feeling okay with the writing right now.

Today’s Word Count: 7, 627
Total Words: 5,014
Words Remaining: 94,986

Another good writing day, thankfully, since I’m so close to the end. The words really flowed well today, and I hit my word count goal without too much trouble. I’m looking forward to finishing this story, though. And my brain is already burning with editing ideas. I did have a slight mishap this afternoon. There was some kind of error when I was saving a chapter, and my Word program closed. When I reopened it, the file was corrupted. Part of it was still there, mixed in with little boxes and funny symbols. I wanted to bang my head against the keyboard, but I managed to resist. I’ll just have to go back and fix it later. And yes, I did count those words.

Today’s Word Count: 7,563
Total Word Count: 87,359
Words Remaining: 12,641

Just as I was getting ready to post here last night, my computer randomly disconnected the internet. I decided that was a sign, and went to bed. I did get quite a lot of writing done yesterday, thankfully, and a little bit on Wednesday as well. I made a pretty good dent in it, actually, although I do have a nice chunk left to go. But the writing went well yesterday, and so far, it is going well today. The end is in sight!

Wednesday’s Word Count: 1,501
Yesterday’s Word Count: 7,526
Total Word Count: 79,496
Words Remaining: 20,504

Okay, so I had another dismal writing day yesterday. I did make up for part of it today, but I have a grueling five days ahead of me to meet my goal. And I will meet my goal. I am determined. I have not come this close and this far to fail at the end. Is it a bad thing that I’m already mentally making notes about everything that will need fixed in the next draft?

Yesterday’s Word Count: 111 (I seem to like that number on bad days.)
Today’s Word Count: 4,015
Total Word Count: 70,469
Words Remaining: 29,531

Apparently, I was still exhausted yesterday, since I got barely any words, even though I was off. I did a little better today. I’m going to have to work pretty hard to hit my goal, though. Only a week left!

Yesterday’s Word Count: 403
Today’s Word Count: 2,525
Total Word Count: 66,343
Words Remaining: 33,657

I have to admit, the last two days were not good writing days. Not because the words didn’t flow, but because there wasn’t time for the words to flow. The 14-hour day I had on Thursday turned into a 15-hour, super-busy day. I did write when I got home, a whopping 111 words, but then had to immediately crawl into bed and try to get some sleep so I wouldn’t be a zombie for the 11-hour day I ended up on yesterday. (That didn’t exactly work, either, because I was a zombie. And I had a headache from about 5 p.m. Thursday, until I woke up this morning. Not a fun experience.) Yesterday, I wrote all of 101 words. This brings my NaNo total up to 63,415. I am now behind schedule for my word count, but at least I did write both days, and I’m proud of that. Now I’ll just have to work a little bit harder to try to catch up to where I want to be.

Okay, so today was a much better writing day. I got my word count without any problems. Sorry this is so brief, but I just now found out that I have to be at work at 4 a.m., which means getting up at 2:15, and I have to work a 14 1/2 hour day now. So, hopefully, I’ll be able to force a few words out tomorrow.

Today’s Word Count: 3,023
Total Word Count: 63,203
Words Remaining: 37,796

So, I have brain drain today. Seriously. I can not remember my own name for longer than five seconds. Writing…not a good idea today. I wrote barely 1,000 words, which is so not my personal goal. But…I am ahead in my weekly word count for this week, so I decided to cut my losses and quit for the day. The words I did get probably don’t make sense anyway. I’m going to bed early, and hopefully I’ll be back on track tomorrow. Anybody had a day like that lately?

Today’s Word Count: 1,040
Total Word Count: 60,180
Words Remaining: 39,820

I had a good writing day today. Everything flowed quite well, and the dramatic, emotional scenes were, well, dramatic and emotional. I finished my word count goal, plus a bit more, so I am happy. Now I am off to watch The Big Bang Theory (which, if you haven’t seen it, is hilarious).

Today’s Word Count: 6,258
Total Word Count: 59,140
Words Remaining: 40,860