NaNoWriMo Update!

Well, it’s getting on towards the end of the month for NaNoWriMo.  I didn’t get up here and post those excerpts like I promised, but I’ll try to come back with a few later today or tomorrow. 

I surprised myself by keeping up with the daily requirment for about 12 days or so.  Then I slacked off to about a 1000 words a day, which was still good since I didn’t think I’d make it all the way to 50,000 words. 

Unfortunently, I was struck down with a stomach ulcer on the seventeenth which took me out of the race.  For those who are interested, never, never get yourself a stomach ulcer.  It just isn’t fun. 

I’ve had one previously and it took me months to heal.  Luckily, this time I knew what to do;

• dropped everything but the essentials
• spent three days in constant pain, three in sporadic moderate pain and a few with very mild heartburn sensations
• got onto a special starchy and mild diet, can anyone say applesauce
• 5 to 6 small meals a day
• and a steady diet of two separate antacids ever since

It was very lucky that the pain started improving within a few days, but I’ve had to be careful since then about what I eat and staying on top of the medication.  It can take up to six weeks for an ulcer to fully heal.

Anywho, the writing practically stopped for about a week and I fell behind in everything.  I’m still creeping along though with a word count of about 17,600 words.  I hope to hit 20,000 words by the end of the month and will continue working on my book from here on out.