Yep! But I freelance, and have lots of time on my hands as a result. My client for the afternoon today cancelled, meaning that I have nothing else to do other than some baking and writing before my RPG session tonight.
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I revive the thread to report a weekās consistency!
Total word count of 36,400, average per day of just over 5200. 
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Excellent. Iāve had things get in the way but Iām sitting at a comfortablish 15 000ish words (rounding here.) 2k words per day. Week two is when excitement ends and āoh drek what am I doing?ā sets in for most people. Just power through.
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I still have two thirds of my outline to work with, including some battles. I think that Iām good. 
My biggest problem has been not getting sidetracked with the research. The 1040s CE were a nutty time in Europe, politically speaking.
EDIT: Spelling
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Naturally Iām coming to the party late but Iād like to add that as much as I enjoy the occasional sprint something one of my English professors said stuck with me: write a page a day for a year and youāll have a novel. That made the idea of writing a weighty tome much less daunting, even in my youth when years were so much longer than they are now.
And damn would I love to read the stories yāall are working on.
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Mine is my fianceeās fault; Iām not much of a movie watcher, and when she was here last month, I finally got introduced to How To Train Your Dragon. That knocked around my head and started bouncing ideas loose, like what happens when I plan and run RPGs, along with āWell, theyāre obviously in the Scottish islands, look at the geology, how would Edward the Confessor and William the Bastard react to that?ā ā¦ and then it cascaded from there. I blame too much fantasy RPG gamemastering and Crusader Kings II for the resulting plotty bits.
So I just wrote up yesterday a scene that I titled āReturn To Senderā; neighboring king tries to steal some dragons. His men get caught. He wakes up in the middle of the night to find that his guards have been snatched off the walls by dragons, and then his longship, filled with tied up thieves in the hold, is deposited in the middle of his fortās courtyard, with a note of ānext time, we wonāt be so nice.ā
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SWEET.
Guess what I just found that I didnāt know?
Macbeth, the subject of the āScottish Playā, was the active king of Scotland during the time period that I picked to set the story.
rubs hands with glee Oooh, I can have such fun with thisā¦
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Have fuuuuuun~
As for things I found out I didnāt know? There is a plant native to north america thatās caffinated and can be made into a tea. Yaupon. Itās a holly plant and there are companies out of texas that sell the already processed stuff either loose or in bags. I found this out by looking for tea substitutes that would be climate appropriate to the setting.
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Up to 42,000 at the moment; I would have been finished already, if not for the RL lunacy from the last few days. Iām just grateful I have this escapism outlet.
But, I gotta say, writing villain speeches right nowā¦ not my favorite thing.
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50,000!
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Congratulations! 
Do you have any tips for keeping your creative output up amidst all this everything thatās been going on? My productivity has been effectively zero for the whole last week, and I donāt know how or when itās going to come back to meā¦
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Iāve been channeling my rage and emotional energy into the writing. I tell the story of where things can be better, or am setting up the plots of villains to have a comeuppance. I retreat into the world of the story and let it distance me from the pain of RL, and, when the bile fascination of finding out whatās going on out here gets to be too much, I end up recharging my anger and disappointment into a resolution that, at the very least, I can tell a story and help make the world a little bit brighter.
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Dang! I managed to finish the last draft of my book on Nov. 10, which is a great feeling. Itās 4,000 words, and those were agonizing to get finished. The art took six months, but was much easier to do, since it was quick sprints and was fun - the writing was harder since the perfectionismās so brutal. 50,000 is epic, Iām impressed!
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It helps that I gamemaster RPGs on a weekly basis, and have done so for nearly a decade now. Iām very used to improvising dialogue, hopping in and out of character headspaces, plotting on the fly, coming up with plots of varying degrees of complexity, and trying to time things for dramatic (or comedic) necessity. Really, that would be my number one piece of advice for anyone looking to improve their writing skillsārun an RPG campaign, especially one thatās story focused like FATE.
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Reviving yet again to report having reached both 66,000, and having had an experienced author and fanficer saying that one of my early scenes āhit me right in The Feelsā.
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Final revive
90k, challenged to reach 100k by tomorrow, and I managed to completely break with my original outline.
Given the subject matter, I feel completely justified in saying that here be dragons.
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Iām lucky that I can write with any text editor.
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135,000! After slipping a bit in the post-election flump, I have managed to claw my way back up to 5k/day! And Iām aiming for 150k for the month!
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This year I did NaHaiWriMo instead. One haiku in the month of November. Got a few syllables to go, I think Iām gonna make it.
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