Things are going differently this year than they have the past two. The biggest difference: I’m behind. The last couple years I would get ahead as much as possible the first week or so, because I know that the going gets much slower as the month wears on.

But not this year. I have an outline to follow, and maybe I’m thinking about things way too much.

The web site — nanowrimo.org — has been painfully slow. I think yesterday was the first time all month I could actually view a page from the site. So my word count on the site is inaccurate — I’m lucky to be able to bring the site up.

I still hate my story. It’s going so slowly that I want to hit my head off the counter.