First off, I've been really sick this month! Not coughing up a lung or anything, but I've really not been feeling well. I think at least some of it is from anxiety/stress, but overall I've mostly been wanting to curl up and stay in bed. It's been a little horrible.
As a result I've missed a lot of writing days. There have been 6 days so far this month that I just haven't written anything, and one day where I didn't write near enough. So at this point I'm 6900 words behind on the NaNoWriMo scale (1667 words a day), and 10,500 words behind on my personal goal (2000 words a day). Currently my new goal is to write 6k words tomorrow and Tuesday, and then 4500 on Wednesday, which will bring me back up to where I want to be.
And I'm going to do this by starting over.
Yep - I'm starting over on my story. Second time, actually. I'm keeping the words I've written toward my novel (after all - I wrote them toward it!), but I'm starting from the beginning again.
Also, on Thursday I think I'm going to play around with making a cover. It's a thing people do. Also making a map of my world. I've made a very dorky map of the complex where most of the action in this book is happening, but there's a whole other world to look at!
The story I'm writing is named The Chronicles of Meija Healer, Book One: Slave (or Escape, I can't decide which I want). Like I mentioned earlier, it's a story I started back in middle school, but didn't get very far with (which means I wrote some 100 pages, but the plot went absolutely nowhere - or rather, went everywhere in a very chaotic fashion). I spent a lot of today thinking about exactly how I wanted the story to go - so hopefully writing tomorrow will go fairly smoothly.
Currently I'm at 11424 words. Pretty good, if I say so myself. Too bad they're all backstory!
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