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.

I was wrong, I'm sorry

I've just realised that I was wrong in my previous post.  I still need to write up to a chapter ending in a 3 or an 8 to get to 63k writing 6k a day, but I'd still be 3k short if I wrote up to chapters ending in a 5 or 0.

I'm gonna keep writing after lunch but won't be aiming for 15,000 words after all today, just for as many as I can before bedtime again.

I've officially got 50,000 words left to write now, so aiming for 5k a day and I'll be done in 10 days without getting stressed out or missing most/all meals every day, so it's a healthier target now that NaNo is officially no more.  

Nope, wrong again, I'm still gonna aim for 6k a day to get my reward and I'll be done in 9 days, but I'm gonna aim for a few bonus chapters after lunch every day to try and get it done and dusted even quicker.  

I'm not writing to beat my personal best of 50k in 7 days this year, I'm writing purely for enjoyment and being able to put another part of my health into words so that people can understand why I am who I am now.

For the second day on the trot...

...I've managed to write today's 6 chapters to earn my reward before lunch.

I'm gonna go and grab my J2O and try and recover for a while.  I wanna get up to chapter 15 today if I can, so that my OCD is happier than it was yesterday and will make for easier calculations too.

I've achieved...

...a pretty decent first 8,000 words today.  I was aiming for 10,000 at 10am after writing the first 5k in 7 hours, but it wasn't to be.  I'm up to chapter 9 now and I've made a decent start, so I'm hoping to write the final word on the 12th as long as I can keep writing at least 5k a day.

Just waiting for my OddBox to be delivered, then I'll take my pills and head on up to bed for hopefully a better night's sleep tonight, rather than waking up at 2am and not being able to get back to sleep like I did this morning.

That's my...

...first J2O of the season earned and it hasn't been too bad so far this year.  I seem to be averaging about 1k an hour which ain't too bad at all and I'm hoping that I'll have squeezed in 10k by the time I head to bed 'cos I won't be eating today, so I won't have to factor in that delay - I've already had 6 packets of crisps, 8 chocolate biscuit bars and a packet of caramel buttons today, so it's no wonder that I'm not hungry lol