Yesterday was a frustrating day. I got about 1,000 words done on my NaNo project, and while transferring the file from my flash drive to my computer, the file got corrupted. I had a back-up, of course (too many years of losing research papers in college taught me the value of back-ups), so all I really lost was those 1,000 words, but still...it's frustrating.

After the corrupted file, I was too annoyed to work on NaNo anymore, so I did some tinkering around with a bit of poetry and watched a fun movie: Titus, with Anthony Hopkins, Alan Cumming, and Jessica Lange...a sort of stylized version of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus.

Day 9
Today was better. I rewrote the scenes I'd lost last night, and I guess they're better written this time around than last. Not really sure. I just sort of need to push through these scenes before I can get to the next major step in the story. I ended up writing about 1,500 words total, and just broke 19,000 words.

Write Or Die
Many NaNo writers already know about this wonderful tool, but Dr. Wicked's Write Or Die is a wonderful application, available in both browser-based and desktop versions. Basically, you set a word goal and a time limit, tweak a few settings, and then you write. If you start slacking off, the program nags you -- first by changing the background to progressively angrier colors, and then by bombarding you with annoying sounds. I've found it to be a good jump-start tool when I'm being lazy and don't want to write.