What the...?!

Okay! So, today is going about as well as yesterday. There is something seriously wrong with this year's NaNo! Is my story idea bad? I didn't think so when I picked it out. It seemed to fall in place even easier than last year's idea. I don't get it. I've only managed 750 words so far today. I'm hoping to catch at least 1200 later this evening. I'm not sure if sprints will work or if I just need to punch in my word goal and keep writing until I hit it. Maybe not allow myself to even get out of my chair until it's finished. Or leave the writing screen or.... ARGH!

This year, I'm making some use of the "Write X many words if..." thread. However, as I was reading through them, avoiding the few that 'break the rules,' I realized that I'd end up with 5,000 words to write if I wasn't careful. lol For awhile, I was doing them one challenge at a time. Sort of along the lines of, "Write 250 words if you..." I'd write the 250 words, and any extra that came with it, and then go look at the next one. "Write 300 words if you're drinking coffee." Oh, yeah. No brainer there. As a matter of fact, where is my coffee cup?

Today, it's raining and cold outside. That is the ultimate recipe for nap day. I've been groggy and out of it ever since I woke up. I swear. This year's NaNo is doomed to failure... *sigh* So much for my "happy, happy, I can do this without a problem" attitude from the beginning. Excuse me, but can I have that attitude back? It was a much happier one and I could use it right about now.

Strangely enough, if I'm on my main computer (the one I'm on now), I find myself flipping through all of my tabs and all of my programs to just "fiddle." Then I'll get sidetracked by something completely unrelated and bleh. An hour later, I might remember what I was doing and return to it. I do believe I need to take a long look at this behavior and discover why I'm doing that. Last year, I was much more disciplined. Oddly enough, even though I had access to the internet, I was much less likely to do that on my Netbook last night. Maybe it's because I don't have all the same programs installed? My instant messengers aren't on there. I have different bookmarks. Maybe it's because the screen is smaller and I can't see as much. Who knows? Maybe it's because it "lives" in my writing corner. No clue. Though, I'm starting to think I might have to do NaNo over there. If it works, then great. I'd love to see this book finished sometime this month. ;-)

Oh. At one point last month, I started worrying that I had over planned my idea. Ut oh. Did I do that and it killed the book idea? Is that's what's wrong? I've lost interest in it because I know where it's going to go? But I thought I left a loose enough frame for my characters to move around as they wanted to. I did notice my main character moving a little out of the way yesterday, but he stepped right back in to line and kept moving forward. Of course, being only in the first 2 chapters, it's hard to say. I'll force my way into the next chapter and see if anything changes. The framework gets much looser through the next 7 chapters. Maybe that will help. I just have to get there first.

Well, time to get a kiddo to do his homework. The fun never ends.