Wow, and I thought I was caffeinated before. I was sitting on AOL reading my emails and drinking a cappuccino while I waited for my coffee to brew, and I made the mistake of trying to add up all the coffee and coffee drinks I've consumed while writing this month. Suffice it to say that my blood could probably supply Starbucks with at least a week's worth of coffee (if they could separate out the plasma and other junk, of course). On the plus side, I'm doing really well with my writing. I'm at nearly 19K words, and once I finish up here and work on the novel tonight, I should pass the 20K mark- 2/5 of the way done! Yay me! This is quite possibly the most I have ever written of a single story, and definitely the fastest.
I really need to thank Nick for talking me into NaNo, cuz this is the most fun I've ever had with writing, plus it's shown me that I really can work writing into my everyday life. I didn't think I could. It does admittedly cause a lack of sleep and coffee overdoses, but I can deal with that. The main thing is that NaNoWriMo and all the ensuing chaos are really convincing me that I can make a go of writing professionally. I feel like I'd worked out how not to be nervous about other people reading my work, but part of me still didn't think I would be able to do it. There is so much work involved in writing, and I have never written a full-length novel before. I wasn't sure I could. But, I'm doing it. In less than three weeks, I'll have done it. And if I finish the novel with less than 50K words, I'll put a thank you page in front for my coffee maker, my eye drops, and all the innocent coffee beans sacrificed to my art :-)
Ok, enough procrastinating. Time to go write more of the novel. Sad, to procrastinate on one writing project, I work on another... [shaking head at myself] Oh well, that's only because I'm giving AOL's continual crashing when I try to load my mahjong game some significance. Other than the usual bitching that AOL just plain sux. Ok, really enough procrastinating. Besides, the coffee's ready and the cappuccino's empty.