gia (Level 13)

I kind of have the daylight savings time switch to thank for it (yay for accidental bonus hours), but I've been forcing myself to jam out words using every morning for 30-60 minutes, and so now my wordcount is 5,297-- over 10% of the target goal of 50,000 words. Hopefully that'll help sustain me on the inevitable days where I fall behind due to the usual insanity that is my life, not to mention the upcoming holidays!
 
Someone on the NaNoWriMo forums linked me to a really useful resource for the whole thing: Write or Die. I open it up in Opera and put it in full-screen mode (damn Mac Firefox's lack of full-screen mode, among other things), so I don't get distracted by other windows. If you stop typing, the screen starts to go red. If you keep not-typing then it starts to play music and sounds and stuff (starting with Hanson's Mmbop, the chorus on repeat, no joke). I've never actually gotten to that point on the tool-- I had to let it sit there intentionally to find that out. @_@;;
 
But it's amazing how just the mindset of not wanting to let down this silly little programmed tool can be in terms of making you just write. Which is always the key on this thing: just write, it doesn't matter if it's not the perfect word or the right direction for the story. 
 
That's what National Novel Editing Month is for ;)