Word count: 6,374

For the end of only Day 2 of NaNoWriMo, I’m very happy with the word count I’ve managed to rack up. It’s a few hundred words shy of the ideal Day 4 word count. It certainly helps that yesterday was a Sunday and I took the day off today to make the most of the Melbourne Cup public holiday tomorrow.

But I’ll be away next weekend, so I want a comfortable word count buffer to make sure I don’t fall behind if I can’t get a lot done while I’m in Sydney. Not to mention that for the rest of the week, every evening is booked up with dinners with friends, and house inspections (there was one of those today as well, but that doesn’t matter so much when have the whole day off).

Ideally, I would like to be at 10,000 words by tomorrow. That way, even if I only do 1,000 words per night for the rest of the week, and nothing over the weekend, I’ll still pretty much be on track come next Monday. Maybe I’ll have to come up with some creative ways to squeeze in a few hundred words here and there over the next week.

It all adds up in the end.