Word count: 26,277.

Woot! I’m finally over half-way!

There’s this feeling you hitting the half-way mark. It’s like the Wednesday of NaNoWriMo – you’ve struggled through the horrors of Monday, the boredom of Tuesday, and now that it’s Wednesday, it’s all downhill to the end of the week.

Writing from 20,000 to 25,000 has been the hardest part of this process for me so far. It didn’t help that I’ve been busy for the weekend, but I don’t think that was the biggest part of the problem – I crossed the 20,000 word mark on Day 12 (last Wednesday) and it’s taken me to today to make up the next 5,000 words. I think a lot of that was psychological. I think I was freaking out a little at the task ahead of me, no matter how much I try to blame it on internet flash games.

But there is something magical about crossing that 25,000 word mark. I can now begin counting down to 50,000. Every word I write from now on one less I have to write (ok, so that was always the case, but I couldn’t think of it that way before).

And the other thing that crossing the half-way has made me realise is that I need to start wrapping up this sucker! At 20,000 words I felt I was struggling for ideas, but now at 25,000 I have to begin working towards the ending, and I have so much ground I need to cover (or brutally summarise). Now it’s a matter of too little space and time for too many ideas.

What a bad problem to have! ;)