NaNo Week #1 + SNIPPETS!

WE MADE IT. 

The face you make when you're excited to be done with week + terrified for the rest of it. 

The first week of NaNoWriMo is officially over. I hope the words have been flowing for you guys and most importantly, you've been having fun with your stories!

My first week was pretty good. Not as good as I'd hoped, but I can't complain! Things are definitely picking up now, so hopefully I'll be able to get into a better flow.

Today's my first promised NaNo update, with a day-by-day play-by-play (hehe) of my word counts and how everything has been going for me! Plus, SNIPPETS for each day! Are you excited? I hope so, because I am. :D 

(The images of my snippets are really small; if you can't read them, just click on them and they'll get bigger. Sorry for the inconvenience!)

DAY ONE: 785 WORDS

Yeah... the first day of NaNo was not amazing for me. I didn't start writing until about 8:30 at night, which was... really not smart. And I didn't have one excuse other than that I was lazy. xD So, shame on me. Buut here's your first snippet!

DAY TWO: 1667 WORDS

In which I obviously JUST made it to my target word count for the day. Like, I literally checked my word count, saw it was at 1666, and wrote ONE MORE WORD and quit because it was late.

No, it's not a rock band. I really need to find a better word.

DAY THREE: 1063 WORDS

... Really, Emily? You couldn't have written 604 more words?

DAY FOUR:  306 WORDS

Wow, that was rough. This was a Sunday, so I really don't know what my excuse was for such a puny word count... buuut I still wrote something, so it's still a win. And at this point I knew that stuff was about to go down, so my motivation would pick up soon and I would hopefully catch up. (Poor excuse, I know. xD)

DAY FIVE: 2044 WORDS

So there I am, chilling on my bed with my laptop, watching the first Christmas movie of the year and working on my story. And then I see movement and I look up and THERE'S A MOUSE RUNNING INTO MY CLOSET.

So I put my laptop down and groaned and I'm pretty sure I said something like "Not again!" because yeah... this isn't even the first time.

Look at this! Look at this mouse shamelessly sabotaging my efforts to write! 

Just because I'm writing about a thief doesn't mean you have to be one...

Needless to say, my writing was a little bit interrupted that day as me and my dad scrambled to block off my closet and set up traps. But I still got a great word count! I made the daily target and even exceeded it a little. Yay!

(Also, the mouse escaped from my closet. Yeah, that's what you get when you lean a plastic lightsaber against your mouse wall to keep it from falling down... and the mouse just runs up the lightsaber and jumps over the wall.)

Unfortunately you don't get a snippet from day five because the fact is everything I wrote that day was kind of unexciting and bad. xD Oh, first drafts.

DAY SIX: 1691 WORDS

Yay, another good day! Things are starting to happen at this point. Archlan's being a naughty little thief and also about to give himself a stroke. Calm down, dude. Stop stealing stuff and you'll be fine.

I was writing this part of the story and Archlan's sneaking around a castle trying not to make a sound and like I said, he's so stressed out worrying that he's going to get caught. And then I stopped writing and went to bed and it was kind of creepy. Even though the sneaking in the book was going on in broad daylight. xD

DAY SEVEN: 2070 WORDS

My highest daily word count so far! The Thing finally happened in my story, and now stuff is about to go DOWN for Archlan. He'd better watch out.

FINAL WORD COUNT OF THE WEEK: 9626 WORDS

Overall, I'm satisfied with how this week went! I'm still hoping to catch up to the target word count 
goal, but I'm already doing better than I'd hoped considering I had a bit of a rough start. I'm having fun with this story and Archlan's (not) having fun. (The ultimate writer-character relationship.)

All right, guys, thanks for reading! I hope you enjoyed the update and the very imperfect snippets.

So how did your first week go? Do your characters hate you yet? Tell me all about it!