Yesterday I realized that I am close enough to 50,000 words that I could feasibly make it there this weekend, if I wrote 4,000 words a day Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. It seems like a lot, but I've actually had several days where I got that many words a day or more.
Unfortunately, I "only" wrote 2,844 words yesterday, for a running total of 40,470. So my new goal is to make 5,000 words today and tomorrow, which will still get me to 50,000 this weekend.
The tricky part is that I'm currently at a point where I want to do a little reading research before continuing. I need to have a familiarity with the vampire literature of the day for the next couple scenes I am writing. Fortunately, besides the lengthy Dracula, the other two pieces of vampire literature in existence in the 1920s were short pieces: an 84-page novella called The Vampyre by John William Polidori, published in 1819, and of course the short story Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, published in a magazine and also a book of the author's short stories, all in 1872.
So I think I'm going to break a cardinal rule of NaNoWriMo and do research when I'm supposed to be writing. (gasp!) I'm hoping I can finish reading both this afternoon, and get back to writing this evening. That would still leave plenty of time for me to make my goals for this weekend.
Wish me luck and many words!
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