NaNoWriMo Day 30: 64,845 Words!
November 30, 2008
SOUNDTRACK: Too many songs and lots of silence.
I had to stop posting to this blog and updating word count before midnight each day. Those simple acts became an obsession and a worry. Obsession creates stress and NaNoWriMo ceased to be fun. I didn’t want to write: on days 13 – 16, I wrote not one word – and this after the exhilaration of Day 12! I had to force myself to turn on the laptop and get going. Character voices faltered. As with the majority of self-induced ailments, obsession is curable but only if the patient is willing. The cure, no posting or updating, led to 64,845 words and the right to claim a NaNoWriMo winner’s certificate and badges to display on this blog. 
What do about this blog? Nothing I think, except keep it for next year. Perhaps there will be a few entires as I edit the first draft. There’s Script Frenzy in April and I’m going to make a donation to the Office of Letters and Light, the organization that orchestrates the madness that is NaNoWriMo.
2008 NaNoWriMo Winner. Sweets by Zizzy 64,845 words
