Word count today: 1347

Total word count: 24,377

I'm way behind, but it's still possible to finish this thing. I'd need to do about 2100 words a day to get finished by the end of the month. I'm hoping I can kick out between 1300 and 1600 words a day for the next few days, just to kind of tread water, and then do a big surge over the Thanksgiving holiday. I only work two days this week. I think I could get away with disppearing for a few hours on Wednesday, and possibily making up some of that ground then.

Last week was a very busy one at work, and I thik I only wrote on two of those days. This is something I very much want to finish, but work had to take precedence last week. The people behind National Novel Writing Month say you reach a point where the prose flows, but so far that hasn't happened for me. So far it's been a matter of the prose sucking more or less on a particular day. As a whole, the novel is a mess with huge holes and a plot that seems to be collapsing in on itself like a black hole or an underdone souffle.