Late update
After my last blog post, I wrote only two handwritten pages of my novel in the entire Monday to Friday week. It was probably around five hundred words, so although I didn't fall behind, I did fall behind the schedule I was wanting to keep to in order to allow me a little breathing time before exams and then my holiday.
After realising on Saturday morning that I was in serious trouble, I managed to get around 1300 words. My problem was that I'd run into a huge gap in my plot - the old stuff just wasn't going to cut it based on what I now knew about the characters. Fortunately, I had the ability to just fluff my way through a couple of ideas I'd had, and by Monday night I hit 50k.
Hoorah!
My story is not finished, but it's highly that my blog entries are xD
Second place!
I'm sure my blog is really boring; just updates on my word count! It's 11pm here and I really can't make myself think of anything more exciting than the fact that I have hit 40k - 40,627 words to be precise, and am now in second place for word count in Christchurch, New Zealand.
In the past two days (just Saturday and Sunday) I have written 12,618 words. I've also gone to the A & P show cleanup from 8am till 10.30am, been to a friend's 18th party that ended up last from 7pm till 2am because of the after-effects of looking after the best friend long after I actually left the party, went to church this morning from 10am till 12pm, going shopping with another friend due to needing time to talk to me from 2pm till 4.30pm and then church again from 6pm till 8.30pm. Somewhere in that mess, I wrote 12k.
I love being busy!
Also, this is completely a blog for me to blow my own trumpet. I am soaring on the wings of delighted shock that I am managing this much, and I want to preserve this effort!
New record
I was very excited about getting 1800 words in one hour; during Business Applications yesterday I went to x205, sat myself down and had two consecutive word wars with Rosalieart with her doing homework and I writing on Write or Die. I managed 1645 words in half an hour and ended up getting 2974 words in an hour. I still need over 2k words to get back into fifth place for Christchurch, but I'm at 28009 right now which is pretty good.
None for Thursday
It's 12:09am as I write this, and if I get up to write this morning it makes less than five hours sleep for an eight to six day of classes. I think I'll sleep in that extra hour and get plenty of writing done tomorrow on Show Day.
I did get some writing done this evening, unlike this morning and yesterday, and I am quite happy that I can actually daydream about my world! The detail is excruciatingly bare, but I'll get there. That's the great thing about being an author - I get to add whatever details I want, whenever I want.
On another note, it seems that my NaNo is not getting in the way of my schoolwork at all. On the contrary I think it's actually helping me do homework, because I'm motivated a lot of the time and I'm aware that NaNo is taking a lot of time so I'm getting onto my work a lot faster than I normally would. These next few weeks are going to be extremely tense as I struggle to balance assignments, exams and study for more exams with the most difficult week of NaNo and then actually plotting rather than just puttering about, so we'll see how I do 
Getting faster
So, 10k in five days is pretty good, right? I thought so too. Until I reached 20k three days later. That's over 6600 thousand words a day! I'm on a friggin' roll and I'm loving it. I don't care that some people have already reached 50k+. This is awesome!
Time to get off so my back doesn't hurt too much.
I remember
Was at 8,136 words when I got home this afternoon; the temptation to bring it to 10k was too great for me to stay off the computer. After a relaxing evening of Singstar Legends and then Burnout: Dominator I hopped on the laptop and reached 10,074 words in an hour.
I have a competition with Anne (Rosalieart from RPG-D) to get to 15k by Sunday. I think I'm gonna win ;D
The title is from a song 'I remember' by Deadmau5 & Kaskade. I prefer the instrumental: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuHWU5Px7XU
I’m gettin’ there
It's 6am in the morning, and I've just finished an hour of writing. I'm astonished that I managed to even wake up at 5am, let alone get myself out of bed and onto the computer to write for a solid hour. But I did, and I got 1800-ish words out of it. I'm not one of those people who got 10,000 words in a day, but I'm very pleased with my progress.
Now, to bed!
Hai thar
I'm not sure how often this blog is going to be updated, because I'm pretty bad at staying consistent with things like this. Since I'd really like to do well this year in NaNoWriMo, however, I will do my best. I can't promise this blog will be filled with fascinating insights into my mind like those of my peers (points to 'Acquaintances'), though.
Also, I don't have the time to make myself a beautiful theme (probably don't have the knowledge, either) so you'll/I'll have to make do with this one until November is finished.