NaNo-No-No
A month of intensive writing unfortunately does not factor in a bout of illness. Last weekend I made up a good chunk of the NaNoWriMo I had fallen behind on and I was on track to get up to date. But on Monday I was feeling tired and grumpy and I only just managed to bash out 1000 words. That was followed by Tuesday when tiredness overwhelmed me, grumpiness increased and anything apart from sleep wasn’t on the cards. It went downhill from there. It turns out the tiredness and grumpiness was actually the start of a full-blown virus. My body aches and most of the time my head feels like a big fluffy ball of uselessness.
Now it’s Saturday and about 15000 words behind target. I tried writing yesterday and managed just over 100 words. It’s not looking good right now. NaNoWriMo does not allow for illness, especially not an entire week of brain failure. As I write this blog my brain is struggling less than 200 words in.
I haven’t given up yet. Purely because I refuse to give up whilst I’m still ill. Realistically I can’t see myself being able to write 3500 words a day for the rest of the week. And that’s based on me being in a fit state to write from tomorrow, which I’m not sure I will be. But there is still the part of me that is determined to succeed. Just last weekend I could visualize the finish line and see myself getting the 50,000 words I needed to win. Now that seems like it is a million miles away.
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