Frozen,

No, not the movie, my paws. 

This is going to be a quick one because my teeny tiny hands and fingers are getting cold and it's causing the joints to hurt, but basically the gist is, I'm busy, I have been soooo busy that it's been difficult to write and it's been driving me insane. I feel like November was the wrong time to be taking a driving test and applying for jobs, but that's life and that's what I'm doing. I'm onto the home stretch now, and only have 7030 words (exactly, there was no rounding) to do before nano is done. 

It's going to be my fifth win in six attempts across seven years, which is pretty special, but more will be said when it is all over and done with and I will post the graph of progress which I allowed to be grossly inaccurate in the time I have been writing on my iPad, but ah well, it doesn't matter so long as you breach the 50k bracket. 

I'm retiring to my bat cave now, because my hands are freezing and I'm wrapped in layers of clothes and blankets and I can still get a solid stint of writing in if my digits would just remember that they belong to me and not a corpse in the Arctic circle.

I seriously feel like they're being bathed in ice, and I wasn't even the one pulling the ice out of my freezer earlier! I think I might be getting frost bite...

NaNoWriMo 2015 Part 1

This week has been nuts. 

I haven't written a blog yet for NaNo because this week has been a bit all over the place. Midnight last night marked the end of the first week and it's been a real mixed bag. I had said, very loudly that I wanted to have a 15k day this year, because I can bash out 10k like with very little problem, but pushing that a bit further has always been too much. I nearly made it two years ago and was a couple of hundred words shy, and nobody has the ability to kick my arse about it harder than I do. 

Problem is that a day like that deserves preparation, and I didn't do any. NaNo2015 started with me running around like a lunatic because I wasn't ready. I had done some planning, I had a story line in my head, I even had over a thousand words down - I repeat, in a separate file and being kept completely out of my word count - somehow it felt like it was going to be impossible. 

By some miracle, I did it, but I was absolutely wiped out for the next few days and a couple of days later I was having an interview so after what was a really promising start, I haven't even got to 25k and I'm disappointed. 

I don't know. I'm starting to realise how much harder this is now I'm working full time, live on my own and have other things to do. It's a bit of a nightmare. 

Anyway, guess it's just a case of keeping going, and seeing how it goes...