NaNoWriMo Days 9 and 10

So... well... Day 9 didn't really happen for me. I have a little chart courtesy of a fellow Open University A215 survivor (who got it from someone on NaNoWriMo a few years ago); on that chart, there is a column for you to fill in your daily mood rating and notes that may be useful later (when?), along with your word count. My mood rating for yesterday was somewhere around a 3 (on a scale of 1-10, 1 being the worst). I've managed to complete my word count on the '4' days, but definitely couldn't do it yesterday. However, the good news is that I had done well over twice the word count the day before, and nearly twice the word count today, so I've definitely made up for the lapses.

Today was not at all difficult in story terms. I described a particular character in more depth and gave her a home life. I didn't look over anything that I had already written, working on a different computer. I really think that made it easier to get into today. It probably also helped that I had taken a day off writing. Either way, I made it to well over two thousand words in an hour and a half, and my 'inner editor' was truly ground into the dirt. I'm hoping not to see her again until December 1st.

The days are very grey now, and it grows dark depressingly early. This is definitely not helping my mood, but it's far too early for this to be happening; normally I'm fairly safe until the beginning of January.

We had steaks for dinner and they weren't horrible! (This is a miracle, as we're talking about Tesco's value British beef here, which is dyed in order to make it look more appetizing than it really is). They didn't have that nasty metallic tang that British beef usually has, actually tasting, well, beefy! We accompanied it with pasta shells in lieu of Spaetzle with Rahmsoße over everything. It was delicious, to the extent that, naturally, I ate too much of it and made my stomach regret the onslaught. Still, for once, it was worth it.