December 19th: A unintentional salute to 2012

Today I wrote 2,012 words! Which is a record, so hooray, and also cool because the year is 2012 (I didn’t intentional write 2012 words). Once again I found myself delving a little too deep into research… I was worse then yesterday and got quite distracted researching mold, believe it or not. Like before, I’m trying to keep my research to a minimum for my WooWriMo challenge. I know I use research a way to procrastinate, so we’ll see if I can stop myself as WooWriMo continues. Unfortunately, I know that it’s just going to get harder from here on out– as I continue writing my story, I will progressively get into more detailed settings. On a related note, I’m a little worried that in the future of WooWriMo I’ll soon turn to outlinging/planing as a way of procrastination. This is because as I get farther along in writing my story I have a less and less detailed plot outline to guide me. I’m not sure how I’ll combat that exactly, but I’ll keep you informed.

Also, I wrote so much today because I was hoping that I was going to be able to make up for my lost word count yesterday (by writing 2,667 words today). Obviously, I did not reach that mark. However, I have decided that I’m not going to stress about it (this is supposed to be fun, after all) and mentally just move on and focus on daily goals. I think this a key learning experience–by doing this, I will feel less of that overwhelming feeling of “ugh I have to make up for all those days,” that insurmountable-workload feel that makes you procrastinate even more. Oh, and another good reason I have decided to do this is because of the certain holidays arriving in next two weeks…  😉

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