Clearly, the writing has finally caught up with my blogging, as I didn’t get this update up as early as usual (nor did I blog over the weekend!).

Week 2 of NaNoWriMo was much harder than week 1, which makes sense since week 1 was easy.  Monday and Tuesday were especially hard, but then a new character showed up.

I can’t believe things can pop up on you like that when you’re writing, but they do.  And this character is probably my favorite so far.  I’m glad she came by, because she made writing much easier!

Because of the Readathon for Hunger and babysitting, I went 48 hours this weekend without writing.  By the end of that time, I was really missing my characters and the world I created.

The main thing I’ve missed out on this month has been reading.  Since I did that a lot this weekend, I want to read even more (it’s addictive, too!).  I want to do both, and I think I can, by being diligent.

My NaNoWriMo word count is now at 33,208 words which is still well ahead of where I’m supposed to me.  After some research and some more writing, I have realized that 50,000 is a reasonable word count goal for this first draft (instead of the 75,000 which was my original thought), so I’m going to allow myself to slow down, aiming to write only the 1,667 words suggested.

At this rate, I hope to be done by the day before Thanksgiving.  Since I fly to Kansas to visit family on Thanksgiving and will be there for the rest of the month, this is great timing.  I can do a lot of reading then, or maybe I’ll move on to another novel idea!

I’m SO thankful my SIL convinced me to do NaNoWriMo…I’m loving it!