I Almost Skipped Today, But I Couldn’t

NaNoWriMo 2015 Day 23

My hands sort of feel like the ones in the picture look after typing all of those words…

It was around 10:30pm EST here, and I was pretty close to just calling it a night and going to sleep, skipping my first day of writing this month.

I made it all the way upstairs, settled in to pick up a book to read in, and even took my glasses off.

In that moment I realized it was actually making me feel miserable that I had just made the choice to not write. Why would I want to do that to myself? I am so close to “winning” NaNoWriMo, and I just need to spend a little more time writing on this story that continues to evolve and flow from the recesses of my mind.

I could not let me lazy self get the better of my writer self.
This time I made a different decision. I made the choice to write.
And that made all the difference.

Day 23: 2,032 words.

Total so far:48,615 words.

Happy writing, NaNoWriMoers!

~Matt
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RECAP:

Day One — 1,854 words
Day Two — 2,038 words
Day Three — 1,715 words
Day Four — 2,177 words
Day Five — 1,798 words
Day Six — 1,987 words
Day Seven — 3,966 words
Day Eight — 2,226 words
Day Nine — 1,848 words
Day Ten — 2,067 words
Day Eleven — 1,991 words
Day Twelve — 2,174 words
Day Thirteen — 2,186 words
Day Fourteen — 2,326 words
Day Fifteen — 2,162 words
Day Sixteen — 2,022 words
Day Seventeen — 2,182 words
Day Eighteen — 2,040 words
Day Nineteen — 2,145 words
Day Twenty — 1,773 words
Day Twenty-One — 2,023 words
Day Twenty-Two — 1,883 words