First off, I’d like to just thank everyone who kept swinging by and saying hi or cheering me on through this journey of mayhem. I haven’t made many friends this month, and my partner might still be grumpy at me for putting such a focus on my writing, but look at this! I’ve won! I’ve won!

So the fact that Scrivener gives you notifications when you hit targets or goals is extra awesome. In fact when I saw the above pop up, I almost squealed. Then I had to delete some text and rewrite it before the notification pop up vanished again! The worst part is right now, I’ve just ticked over the fifty thousand mark and my story has only just entered its climax, so its my aim to finish the whole novel before the end of the month (which could mean an additional twenty to twenty five thousand words).

I have found some odd discrepancies between Scrivener and the NaNoWriMo word counter, don’t worry it has nothing to do with total word count! No, the issue I have is with the session target unless it includes last night before I went to sleep (roughly a thousand word discrepancy!). Who knows… but it has been a long, hard fought battle. For this story I’ve enjoyed every scene (some slower than others) but they all drive the story to the major issues happening at this point of the story and the characters are an interesting enough cast that I think people will enjoy them. I’m so proud of this book so far!I made this Doge meme today for my crazy twitter updates while I was writing to break up the insanity that is talking to the multiple voices in your head while the world around them crumbles. Not only that, but with roughly twenty five hundred words to go I heard a strange pop sound from upstairs. The toilet then started cycling as if it had been flushed. Without a second thought I rushed upstairs to find the plastic top of the toilet was slightly askew. I thought to myself, that’s odd, probably the heat though. I unscrewed the ring holding the top on and when I removed it from the toilet, the valve shot past my ear (I literally heard a whistle) and landed somewhere behind me while the toilet began raining like some sort of disgusting fountain (All clean water, I assure you). I turned the water off and looked around, and water had managed to get everywhere. I had to wipe down the walls and ceiling, the toilet and floor, the bath and the shower. It was a pleasant distraction.

But, despite all of that and the dogs being crazy and me being on some sort of new diet thing… I managed to do it! I worked full time, maintained a relationship, continued on with life and during all of that wrote fifty thousand words! If you asked me four years back if I’d have written two novels before I hit thirty, I’d have laughed. I thought it near impossible with life constantly getting in the way.

But here we are, and if I can do it… anyone can do it. After all, I’m just a boy who grew up in a trailer park and made some terrible decisions in my life. I’ve made it though and my writing gets better every day. Now… to finish this story and start looking into some publishing options!

Fifty Thousand Words! Twenty Days! *Insert Screaming Like A Fangirl Here*

PS- As a reward to myself… I think I’ll shave now. Or at least trim this beast of a beard. Yes. That’d be good.