I didn’t feel like answering today’s writing prompt because it seemed silly. My feelings about meat? I like meat.

So instead I’m going to share my progress results for this year’s NaNoWriMo!

This year was the first time I committed to writing for it, and it was challenging to juggle life priorities to fit in time to write. I had already been making sure I would write, even a little, every day, and that’s why I was answering those prompts. So, while I didn’t meet the 50k word goal for NaNoWriMo, I decided to include my blog word count for the month of November in the total count. I still didn’t reach 50k.

• NaNoWriMo Goal: 50,000
• Actual written: 39,898 (79.8%)
• Blog word count: 8,382 (16.8%)
• Total: 48,280 (96.6%)

I got really close! I may not have reached the goal, but between these final numbers and the daily tracking spreadsheet someone was kind enough to make and share, I proved to myself what I am capable of accomplishing if I stick to it. Which in the grand scheme of things was the real goal for me.

As you can see in the snapshot above, there were multiple days where I wrote nothing except the daily blog post, and several where I wrote very little when compared to the daily average target for hitting 50k. If I had kept up the momentum from those first 15 days, I would have CRUSHED the 50k goal! Oh well. I’ll try again next year.

In the meantime, I’m planning on finishing out the story I started and also maintaining the daily writing habit for the blog. I think today is day 47 in a row for posting, so I think I’m on the right track.