Word count: 10,005.

Woot! A fifth of the way there.

And somehow, I managed to fit in 1,600 words in one of busier days I’ve had in a while. Admittedly, those words were completed sometime around 12:15am, which – with work the next day later today – is not ideal, not something I want to be doing everyday.

I managed to give myself a kickstart on it by waking up at 6:30am, and going 300 words before I got up to go to work. Then at lunchtime, I was up and down Swanston St visiting homeloan people at the bank, and picking up keys for the library that we use for our writing group – that was also tonight, from 6-8pm. And somehow in there, I managed to fit in a quick beer for a mate who was leaving for PNG for a few weeks.

So I got home about 8:45pm, had a bit of dinner, but it was probably about 9:30pm before I got into the serious writing. I wish I could race through a 1000 words in 20 minutes like some people can, but even though NaNoWriMo advocates quantity over quality, quality is still something that I find hard to leave at the door. I’ll save that for the final weekend if I’ve gotta pump out 20,000 words in 2 days…

… praying fiercely that won’t happen though!