NaNoWriMo - Week 3 Update

I can't believe that there's less than a week left of NaNoWriMo. The pressure is really on now to hit my 50,000 word goal but I can see the end in sight and can't wait to have my first draft complete! 
One of the things I struggled with the most in the third week of the process was my own doubt. I couldn't help but feeling that my writing was gradually getting worse rather than better, which made me feel very disheartened.
However, I then came across this great article from terribleminds called 'I think I suck and I'm not a real writer', which was perfect for the mood that I was in. It really helped and made me realise that I could revise my novel countless times after NaNoWriMo. It didn't have to be complete and perfect this month! In fact, it wouldn't be. It'd be faaaaaaar from perfect.
How is everybody else getting on? You're almost there - you can do it! 

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NaNoWriMo - Week 2 update

These are my absolute life savers at the moment. I'm now more than half way through NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) and I am feeling it!
 

There's a common belief that the second week of NaNoWriMo is the hardest and after my first experience, I can confirm that it's been pretty tough. Once I reached about 20k words, I started to become stuck, after all my characters, settings and important scenes were written I wasn't really sure where to take the rest of my story.

My novel has also unintentionally took a complete redirection from my original ideas and that needs to be reigned back in the coming week. During the first week everything was structured and I knew exactly what I'd be writing next, whereas this week I've fallen off track.

But just when I started to feel disapointed with myself, something wonderful happened. I hit 25k words. I'm exactly half way through and I keep telling myself that I can do this. I got this far, right?

My word count seems to be down most days now, which wasn't the case in week one, but I'm looking forward to bringing it back up.