NaNoWriMo 2010, Day 15/30

I realized something this morning, while taking a look at my writing statistics. I didn't feel like writing.

I mean, I got up already, so I'm going to do it. But that big gap between my current word count and the NaNoWriMo goal feels insurmountable. This is supposed to be the halfway point, after all, and I'm barely halfway to halfway.

But you know what? Since I started daily writing again back in October, I've done 43k words. That's nothing to sneeze at, even in more than a month. At my current rate of progress, I'm set to top 55k by the end of this month. I'm making good, steady progress. Why should I feel bad about that?

And so, I retooled all my writing statistics with my own goals. Not the huge, 2,700 word-a-day goals that I would need to maintain to succeed in NaNoWriMo around work and the holidays. A normal, 1,689 word goal for normal days, 500 for weekends, and 0 for days that I'm traveling or otherwise tied up.

That makes my goal for the month just over 30k. And what's wrong with that? Not a damn thing. It's a good, solid chunk of writing, 100 pages.

I'm still a little behind, but not by 12,000 words. I'm behind by 6,000, and that I can overcome.