Stretching the boundaries a bit

Well, it's currently 6AM on September 30th, and I'm about 3,000 words away from my goal of 25,000 by the end of the month. I could probably hit the 25,000 mark before midnight, but it would mostly be writing I'm not all that proud of. This IS a first draft, and it will wind up getting completely re-written at some point, but I don't see much merit in pushing it just to say "I did it!" (Considering chibiakki already won, you see. *laughs*)

So I've decided to extend my personal deadline a little - I'm still enjoying deadline writing, to keep me from procrastinating TOO badly - and have 25,000 words by no later than October 3rd (since I hadn't issued the challenge until September 3rd, anyway.) Ideally I'd like to actually finish the story by then, but I'll settle for having the first draft finished by the time I go back to work after my (abbreviated) weekend.

And then I need to start doing scary amounts of research and outlining for my NaNovel this year. Meep.

NaNoWarmup Challenge - Update - 09/30

Goal: 25,000
Words written: 22,038
Percentage of goal: 88.2%
Percentage of month past: 100%

Not far off. 22,000 words in 25 days ain't too bad. Now that I'm into the swing of my work week I should be able to top it off before October 3rd, and then wrangle it into being a finished first draft before my next work week starts.

For now, I'm going to stumble home and make sweet, sweet love to my bed.