Getting There

It doesn't matter how you get there. Hop a freight if you need to.  Image copyright Lori Gravley

I’ve been behind almost since the beginning, but I’m really trying to hit my tenth win this year, even though my path there has been harrowing and harried. Still, after a couple of 5,000 word days, I may get there.  
Here’s what will help:

• I’m not cooking for Thanksgiving. 
• Tony arrived yesterday to help with Grandbaby sitting so I have more free time in the mornings to write.
• My story is headed in the right direction, and I’m at a good place in the middle to skip over the parts of the plot that are often challenging for me to the final countdown, climax, and atonement scenes.
• Writing bad sex scenes is a good way to write lots of words that will have to be cut later.  (I started in YA, but it’s turned into a romance). 
• My van has a comfortable workspace, and I’m getting good sleep.  
• Coffee.

I have two more hours to work today, so I’m hoping to get in at least 2,500 more words, bringing my total to almost 41,490 words and putting me in spitting distance of the finish line.  
I hope that you have a list of things that will help you, too, whether you're 2,000 or 25,000 words away from a win.  There are a number of novelists who regularly write 10,000 words a day (my max is about 5,000), so even if you’re at 25,000 you could still come from behind for a NaNo win. Remember, whether you get to 50,000 words or not, you’ve written this month, maybe even every day, and that counts as a win whether it counts in your NaNo stats or not.