NaNo Days 2, 3, 4 & 5: In sickness and in health

Somehow, every November, somewhere near the beginning of it, I fall ill. It happened last year on days 5 & 6, and this year it came a little bit earlier. Again, it was the flu, but a somewhat heavier variety this year, which actually put me off writing for a whole day. Luckily, by then I was ahead of schedule. Today, the first day I'm actually feeling like sitting upright and thinking about word output again, I just had to write until 8,333 words to be on par again. I am now at 8,360, and the day has just begun. I'm hoping to get to 10,000 today, which gives me another nice buffer for the days to come.

To be honest, I'm not fully recovered yet, and it's taken me over 2 hours to get to the 1,300ish words I've written so far. I've done lots of Sporcle quizzes in between, which takes your mind off the word thing, and somehow recalibrates you for another stretch. Hopefully, by tomorrow I'll be fully up and running again. Despite the difficulty of writing, it is still pretty fun, and my characters are behaving as they should be. They are just rolling from my fingers a bit slower than I would like, but hey, you can't have it all.