I'm giving up at completing NaNoWriMo. At this point, it's pretty obvious it's not going to happen. There is just no way I'm going to complete this. turil is right, I need to go about things differently. I need to set more realistic goals and take things in smaller steps.

It may look bad, but I had already mentally budgeted that I would make little or no progress at NaNoWriMo during invalid_userid's visit.

Day	Words
1	1729/1667
2	1883/3333
3	1883/5000
4	1883/6667

With the preparations for invalid_userid's visit along with wanting to spend time with her, I didn't get much writing done. I expect to fall quite a bit behind while she's here, but I have already planned for that and if all goes well will catch up after she leaves. While I am serious about doing NaNoWriMo this year, spending time with good friends is far more important.

Day	Words
1	1729/1667
2	1883/3333

I'm going to attempt nanowrimo this year. I've got a book that's been kicking around the back of my head for the last few months, and I want to get it written. I'm contemplating self-publishing it on neitherday.com if I succeed in getting the book written. Neitherday.com has been languashing for a while anyway and at this point is only a shallow echo of this journal. I'd like to actually make it into something.

Day	Words	Day	Words	Day	Words
1	1667	11	18333	21	35000
2	3333	12	20000	22	36667
3	5000	13	21667	23	38333
4	6667	14	23333	24	40000
5	8333	15	25000	25	41667
6	10000	16	26667	26	43333
7	11667	17	28333	27	45000
8	13333	18	30000	28	46667
9	15000	19	31667	29	48333
10	16667	20	33333	30	50000

purpleglitter asked me to make some NaNoWriMo icons for language is a virus. I came up with four, and thought I'd share them here as well.