Word count: 8399.

Ok, so I didn’t make it to the 10,000 words that I was hoping to get to by today. And it’s back to work tomorrow, and trying to fit in 1,667 words around all the other things that I need to get done. But I’ve made a good start at least. I’m a good day ahead of where I need to be with the word count by today, so there’s still a little breathing room.

So I didn’t get a lot done today. I guess my biggest excuse reason was that I was in a bad mood for most of the day. I’ve never been able to use bad moods to fuel my writing – that’s a skill I’d like to have, take all that raw emotion and turn it into beautiful fiction – usually because when I’m in a bad mood, there’s a very specific reason for it, and my mind is too fixated on that to be able to think about story and characters, etc.

But sometimes you’ve just gotta take the time and do what’s necessary to sort these things out. In an attempt to get it off my mind, I vented onto virtual paper for twenty minutes … a thousand words that I wish I could add to my NaNoWriMo count. Oh well…

But once it was sorted and my mind free again, I got down to a bit of writing, did about 800 words without too much trouble while fitting in a few other things as well. Kind of good … I’m already at a point in the story where I’m not exactly sure where it’s going. Feeling like I’m treading water while waiting to get to the next good part. At least over the next few days, I’ll have a bit of downtime – tram trips, that sort of thing – to do a bit of planning for where it is going.