NaNoWriMo Write-In Success

I went to an official NaNoWriMo 'write-in', where participants in the area can go to meet up to write together.  The format was interesting, but turned out to be very effective.  We did 'writing sprints' where we wrote for 10 minutes straight, then took a ten minute break - repeat over and over.  The meeting was from noon to four in the afternoon, and I wrote almost 4,000 words while there!  When I came home, I wrote some more (I know, surprising, right?) and my total word count for the day is 5,626, for a total of 13,378 towards my November goal of 50,000!  This doesn't count about 24,000 words I wrote before the month of November that won't be counted towards the NaNoWriMo goal.

I just noticed that was a lot of numbers - to make it simple, I have written a total of 37,378 words total for the novel, with 13,378 of that going towards my 50,000 word goal in November.  That leaves 36,622 words left to write this month (just so you don't have to do the math).

Plus, I'm all the way to the middle of chapter 12!  With the word count goal, this is really pushing me to go for quantity not quality, but at least I'm going to end up with a finished first draft, right?  There are pros and cons to taking part in NaNoWriMo.  I'm going to try and focus on the positive...since I'm in the middle of the chaos.  Just keep writing.  Just keep writing.