I managed to write 3,184 words today bringing my total up to 6,055 on day 2 of NaNoWriMo. If you’ve just tuned in, as it were, I’ve got to reach 50,000 words by midnight on November 30th. That’s if my head doesn’t explode between now and then, or my fingers fall off.

I won’t say it’s easy, it never is, far from it—some of today’s prose was maddeningly difficult for me to construct—but the fact that I’m working to a rigid deadline really helps me, always has, always will. I’ve long been able to produce journalistic articles to the required word count and before deadline, so I’m really hoping this month’s experiment will confirm that yes, in all things and in all ways, I really do get my work done better with a proverbial rocket (or broom) up my ass pushing me forward. There’s just no time in which I can indulge my procrastinating tendencies.

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