Day 8: Transitions

Grand Total: 22412
Writing Session: 8
Chapter: finished 3 started 4
Today's hours: 3
Today's Word Count: 3627
Today's Page appox.: 15 (250 words per page)
Total Pages: 90

It took longer than I thought it would to get Chapter 3 finished but its done and I’ve started Chapter 4. To combat the dreaded NaNo two week slump/hump, I loosely outlined the next few chapters and hope the novel keeps the steady pace I’ve started in the first week. I almost quit early tonight because I wasn’t sure how to start Chapter 4. For a moment, the Inner Critic perked up her ears in interest but I pushed her back into her corner and dived, head first, right into the chapter, accomplishing another couple 100 words (500 to 600 I think) before I stopped for the night. I’m so tired as I post this report and very much ready to go to bed.

Its also been another emotional day for Mom but hopeful too. The doctor seems intelligent and determined to figure out what is really going on and the best way to fix it. Hope and pray hard that they will finally solve the problem. What a day.

22412? Is that right? How can that be?
I’m almost to last year‘s grand total word count.
What was my problem last year. Was it me or the novel?
I think it was both plus my Inner Critic kept picking at every word choice.

Well, I’m definitely engrossed with this novel and must finish it or it will turn around and beat the crap out of me.