I spent about six hours crocheting today. Yeah, my one day off before an eight-day stretch into the end of next week and I spent most of it playing with yarn instead of writing. It wasn’t necessarily that I didn’t have ideas to write down, but I felt like crocheting. Now I’m trying to break 30k words before midnight so I’m still roughly in the same vicinity as last year’s tally for today: 31,899. The thing is, I don’t think that I’ll be even able to attempt to keep up past tonight, however. The total for November 12 last year was 40,173. With work tomorrow all afternoon and evening, there’s no way I’ll be writing over 8,000 words! It stays pretty ridiculous after that too: 45,624; 52,362 (2 days in a row) then jumping up to 61,598… Well, you get the picture. I obviously had a word explosion last year around this time that I simply will not be able to match this year. After all, last year I was working only 15-20 hours a week. This year, I’m working full-time plus all the other random stuff I do for work. Add to that not feeling particularly well for the past week or so, and there’s no way I’ll be able to do more than simply average 1000-2000 words a day on most days. Today, I’ve written about 4,000 words and hope to write more before the day’s out. That’s on a good day ’cause I’ve been off all day. That’s not happening again until the 20th. :/ Oh well, I’m gonna see if I can finish off chapter six real quick then try to get closer to the real plot of the story before too long. I had this problem with Book Two: too much lead-in for the actual action. Madness. At any rate, have a fun night!