NaNo Days 6 to 9: I am a palindrome!

So my last NaNo update was pretty brief and I could repeat most of what I said there in this post, since not much has changed. It is the usual roller coaster ups and downs of the work week, with the added bonus of actually doing stuff in the weekends. So usually I write around 4,000 to 5,000 words on Saturday or Sunday, but now they're more or less the same as the work week pattern. I think it would work, as a Roller Coaster Tycoon concoction:

Daily word count for days 1 to 9.

I did manage to write at least 1,000 words each day, so that's good.

And my total word count as of this moment is 18,181, a palindrome worthy of the NaNo palindrome club. When I reached this point yesterday evening I was debating whether to keep on writing or stop for the night, but such a nice number deserves to be the end point for at least 12 hours. I'll add more words this afternoon, hopefully getting up to 20,000 words today.

Story wise everything is going as expected; the main character thinks and does as she pleases, several side characters have developed personalities far removed from what I'd actually anticipated and several major plot points have moved up or down the story as a consequence of the above. This is okay; I am not forcing the writing into the ideas I've plotted out, but I'm letting the story flow naturally. Hopefully, this will get me to the finish line with an end product I actually like!