On the first day of April I signed up to Camp Nanowrimo, an internet based creative writing project where participants try to write 50,000 words of a novel in a month.  On April 30^th I posted my final count.  I only managed 30,000 words.

I knew I wasn’t going to make it from quite early on.  The colourful, super friendly Nanowrimo website gave me a graph showing me day by day exactly how much I was falling behind; just how much lower my average words per day was than the rapidly increasing target needed to finish on time; the glaring little endnote that if I continued at this rate I would finish some time in late May.

In the last week the near impossibility of reaching my goal haunted me.  In theory, sure, I could rattle out 5000 words a day.  But when I sat in front of the keyboard the words would come so slowly.  I would look up, two hours would have passed, and the word count would only be 600 words up.  What was I doing wrong?

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