Word count: 898

Personal comments: I capped off last night with 898 words, which sounds terrible, yes - but considerign I didn't start until 8:00 and only worked for a half hour, isn't terrible. I was really debating whether or not to even attempt NaNo this year, since I had such a week plot structure and no way of really getting the words down in a way that could be validated with any efficiency (BOTH my laptops were stolen this past year; I have a cheap, ten-plus year old laptop that I can type on, and that may be all I need now), but once I started I figured I should stick it out for the long haul. A few alternatives to simply not writing have cropped up, one being the aforementioned laptop, on which I can only novel in a Text Document, since any new computers are incapable of reading it's Wordpad docs; transferring it over to my boyfriend's laptop to keep a running copy there, as well as posting everything I write into my Dreamwidth account, which allows me to write during my free time at work (I have a couple of hours every other day, between prep periods and just general flex time (I'm a Special Education aide, and every other day relies very heavily on my being available for reading, scribing, and administering tests. But when none of that is happening, I'm just free until something crops up)). Also, my boyfriend has decided to NaNo again this year, so hopefully with someone else doing it, it will be easier to stay on track and get support. Maybe if he gets into it enough, we'll even attend a meet-up or a write in. I for one think either of those options could be a lot of fun.

NaNo comments: Um, well, it's actually coherent, I'll give it that. And it's not dragging the same way most of my NaNo novels do. I'm just over 2,000 words in, and I've already introduced/will have introduced all my main characters, set up where we are, who these kids are, why they're here, and am in the process of really getting their personalities down. If nothing else, it's fun to write first-person again, especially from four different perspectives.