Can I...

...go 2 full weeks without a drop of caffeine??

This week and the start of next week has been and will be easy because I don't have caffeine when I write, but starting on Wednesday (a week today) it could be a challenge.

I've felt better without it for the last 4 days, but I've also been so knackered all day that I'm craving the awake feeling that it gives me too.

I wanna go as long as I can without caffeine, but am I pushing myself too hard and too fast by suddenly going without any for 2 weeks or is that a good thing?

Other than...

...NaNo and JanNo participation days/weeks, I'm determined to eat at least 2, ideally 3 proper meals a day.  

Gonna start off every day with either toast (in cool weather) or Weetabix (in hot weather) and juice, then a protein and at least one vegetable for lunch then either fruit or soup for tea.

Snacking and drinking whatever I want, whenever I want is fine, but my first target is to eat 3 proper meals.

I've done it before, just before I started NaNo this year, so I know it's possible and getting the healthy goodies into me with fruit and veg really makes my body work at its best, so I'm gonna make a determined effort after I finish NaNo hopefully next week.

I'm expecting to screw up and stuff and that's totally OK, I'm just gonna take it slow and steady to build up to fully healthy meals every day that I'm not writing or editing.

That's today's...

...6,000 words written, so I can have my reward, then my lunch, then come back into the present again until bedtime tonight.

By about...

...this time tomorrow, I'll officially be half way through the entire 63,000 word manuscript, which I'm pretty proud of.

I won't quite beat my personal best of 50,000 words in 7 days, but I won't be far off it either!

Woops!

I've just finished draining a large mug of drinking chocolate and it's past my daily drink cut-off time of 4pm so I'm gonna be waking up desperate for a wee again after I go to bed, then it'll take me forever to get back to sleep again.  You'd think I'd've learnt by now lol

As of right now...

...I've officially written a third of the entire manuscript, which ain't so bad in 2½ days.

I've written the first 12½ years so far, which has hopefully set up the rest of the manuscript with all the basics and important information that's needed for the next 42,000 words.

I've also achieved my daily goal of 6,000 words so I'm gonna take my lunchtime pill and then enjoy my reward and see how many more chapters and words I can knock out before I head to bed tonight.

So far this morning I've...

...put in my next grocery order and written 4 chapters just in time for today's groceries to arrive at any time now.  I'm hoping that I'll have written a third of the book before I stop for lunch, then an extra couple of bonus chapters after lunch.

I'm determined to get this manuscript finished by the 10th at the latest this year, but we'll have to wait and see.

Loki is up to His tricks again 'cos my groceries arrived just as I finished that last sentence lol

I'm gonna have a protein snack then start writing my fifth chapter of the day, with hopefully no more interruptions lol

I'm now, officially...

...a quarter of the way through the manuscript, which feels so good.

My next target is to hit a third at the end of chapter 21, which I'm hoping I'll achieve by bedtime today.

I feel like I've...

...achieved a lot since yesterday morning's start to NaNo but I'm totally knackered after waking up then getting up before 3am yesterday, writing all day, going to bed at 7pm and then being woken up again at 9.30pm by my weekly OddBox being delivered, so I've taken my pills and I'm heading to bed now.

I'm literally 750 words away from being a quarter of the way through this year's NaNo manuscript and I've finally decided that starting on 1st January 2027 I'll definitely be writing about everything I think and feel as it happens for an entire year.  That'll be me at my most vulnerable so I've got no idea if I'll publish it or not, but everything that I usually keep hidden will be going into it - the good that I show to everyone, the bad that I show to a select few and the absolutely ugly that I don't usually show to anyone.  It will be a highly emotional and very raw book, but I think I need write it to finally get it into the open like I have with my previous two memoirs and the one that I've just started writing.  I won't be planning a word of it, it'll be my raw thoughts and feelings as I think them so could potentially be very offensive to some people who have treated me badly.

I'll be back to writing for children and young adults for NaNo2027 so I hope I can get back into that quickly and easily... it's already planned out, I'll just have to choose my language more carefully next year <gulp>

Just under...

...a quarter of the way through the entire 63,000 word manuscript in only 2 days.  I'm now on track for finishing the entire thing in exactly 8 days time, as long as I write 6,000 words every day.  I usually hit 6k by about lunchtime then another couple of thousand after lunch, so maybe even 7 days instead of the 8 if I keep writing 8,000 words a day.  My target is 6k but I wanna try and challenge myself to write another chapter or two above that every day so that I can be finished sooner.  It's looking like I'll beat my PB though, even though that's not the aim this year.

I can now have one more hot drink before I head to bed tonight.