Holy crap!

I've found my new motivation! (Thank God, because I was starting to panic!)

I've participated in regional word wars before, but in five years I've never participated in an individual word war or sprint, despite the fact that there is a whole forum dedicated to them.

Feeling desperate, I headed over to the forum to challenge someone to a word war. Well, there was already a thread set up for 15 minute word wars. So, I jumped in. In the first 15 minute word war, I wrote 679 words. And they are some of the most honest words I have written all month. In the second one, I wrote 789 words. Just two 15 minute increments, and I am almost all the way to the normal daily goal of 1667! Insane!

And, even though I have *thought* I got the whole idea of NaNo for the last four years (silencing your inner editor), only having to write 1667 words a day, for me at least, still allows that inner editor to reign (like going back and adding italics to thoughts or using the MS Word thesaurus for the perfect word or researching exactly what it is I am trying to say). Well, when you're trying to write as many words as you can in a really short amount of time, that truly DOES go out the window. And the words really DO flow. And who cares that I can't find the right name for that little window thing with the shelf that cooks put the food on when they want the waitresses to take it out? I just described it as best I could, and later, it will be finessed.

Now, NaNo is real to me.

And, hey, Dan, that perfect "10" day we talked about? I am pretty close to feeling that way, right now! *g*