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Total immersion erotic romance writing. What a concept.

Have you ever kind of tried to hide something from yourself? I mean, you obviously know that there might be a plan in the works, but you just kind of tell yourself that it probably won’t happen so there’s no reason to stress?

That’s what I was doing yesterday. I was telling myself, “Who? Me? I know I need to write more, but I have a lot to do, and writing so much in one day probably isn’t even possible for me, again.”

My exhausted brain didn’t even want to think about being in front of the computer, and with only a week left–seven days!–and 16,900 more words to write… Yikes!

So I got myself in front of the computer before my sleep-deprived inner editor had even thought about coffee. And here was today’s progress. At these times, this was my total word count for NaNoWriMo:

Start: 9 a.m. - 33,100 total words.
10 a.m.: 33,601 total words. (up 501)
11 a.m.: 34,123 total words. (up 522)
12 p.m.: 35,047 total words. (up 924)
1 p.m.: 35,742 total words. (up 695)

Break until 2 p.m.
3 p.m.:  36,243 total words. (up 501)
4 p.m.:  36,373 total words. (up 130)
5 p.m.:  36,908 total words. (up 535)
6 p.m.:  37,045 total words. (up 72)

Break until 8 p.m.
9 p.m.:  37,210 total words. (up 165)
10 p.m.: 37,531 total words. (up 321)
11 p.m.: 38,130 total words. (up 664)

Total words written today: 5,030.

I am pleased with how the book is turning out. I spent part of today writing a sexy scene that I think readers will find hasn’t been done to death, elsewhere. At least, I certainly hope so!

Again, I’d like to thank Simon Haynes for his genius idea.

But there’s more than one reason I’m counting the days until NaNoWriMo ends: I don’t think I can do many more days like this without needing a new brain, no matter how well I think the story is going.

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