Is it bad to be motivated by competition? My cousin is also participating in NaNo this year. She's a few years older than myself and she's majoring in editing. If I had not found out that she was participating this year I might not have bothered to join at all and left the novel at the "I'll get to it" stage. I just wanted to finish NaNo before her so I got my butt together and started.
Currently I'm at 7,115 words. The NaNoWriMo page has a neat chart that displays all the stats for your project- how many words you have, how many you should write per day to reach the goal, how many words you're behind, and so on so forth. At this stage in the game it's recommended to be at 28,334, so I'm more than a little behind. Still, I just passed my cousin's word count and I couldn't help letting out a little "ha, ha!" as I did. Well, as long as I don't tell her that it's fine....
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