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Well, I can officially say that this NaNo is nothing like last year's NaNo. Last year the writing was easy and the story cohesive. I hit 50K on November 20 with what felt like no effort. The words flowed.

This year, writing has not come so easy. I am very easily distracted and find myself wandering the internet when I should be writing. The story is not cohesive at all.

One minute it is a sarcastic, funny look at being thirty-something, the next minute it's all sinister with the presence of two dead bodies (both dead long before the story began), and the next minute it's kinda uplifting and about people following their dreams. If these were all sub plots leading to the same place, I would be okay with it. But I might as well call this "A completely UNcohesive and schizophrenic look at four different people's lives." ARGH!!!!

I wish it would just decide what to BE and then maybe the writing would be easier and I could actually concentrate on the story and not find myself surfing instead.

In good news, though, my QuickPad came the other day and I managed to eke out an extra 500 words yesterday when the Metro was delayed. I really wanted the Alphasmart Neo (or even the Dana, heh), but I got it off of eBay and the deals for the QuickPad were better than the deals for the Alphasmart. Which probably means the Alphasmart is more in demand, and therefore, better, but this was a splurge as it was, so I had to go cheap. Including shipping, I paid less than half of what the QuickPad goes for retail without shipping.

I researched both products and a lot of writers and journalists have been using these or their ancestors since the eighties and absolutely love them. I figured if it was good enough for professional writers, it was certainly good enough for me.

I've been using it two days and have been really happy with it so far. And, since I am CLEARLY not going to have this travesty finished before I go home next week for Thanksgiving, now I can get some writing done during the eight hour drive home (which will most likely be ten hours in Thanksgiving traffic). Always a bright side, right?

I can't believe that I have actually managed to write 7,924 words in the last two days. So, I only have to write 1,528 more tonight before I go to bed and I will be where I "should" be today. That's a relief after falling so far behind in Chicago.

Now, if I could just decide on a plot...