During the month of April, I fought a long and arduous struggle with several powerful dark creatures: Writer's Block (Wielder of the Blank Page and Evil Overlord of the Slowly Shifting Word Count), Distraction (That Dancing Llama at the corner of your eye who entices you with cotton candy and cookies, only to destroy your whole manuscript when you approach in hopes of treats), School (I won't even go into that; suffice it to say it impeded my word count very much), Despair (at the meager size of my word count), and, perhaps worst of all, Sickness. I came down with some bad poison ivy, coupled with a fever, around the second week of the month.
Any fellow Wrimos out there know how important the second week is. You can catch up on the first week, but if you don't stay on track for the second, it all falls to pieces. I still managed to write quite a lot (I was aiming for 75K, and I cranked out enough to put me in position to conquer 50K). But after my second week, I basically gave up, and only managed about 3000 more the rest of the month.
I have won NaNoWriMo before, last November in fact. But Camp NaNoWriMo, the April session at least, was not in my destiny. I had several essays and projects to write in school, as well as the dreaded ALGEBRA, worst of all horrors, so that when I came home I was exhausted by the time I finished homework. All these factors I've mentioned combined to beat me to a pulp this April. I only managed 30K the whole month. Which isn't bad, considering the obstacles. But it's still far short of the intended goal.
However, in July, I will try again, and there won't be school to impede me. Hopefully, I'm healthy, too. The phoenix will rise again!
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