Honestly, my ability to create a new habit was badly affected in the first few days of the month because of outside conditions. The lack of a definite starting point for the challenge threw me off course, and my understanding that I would have to write so many words in a day made me all the more hesitant to start.

But I'm not giving up on it, because it has real potential and I could gain a lot from it. I am simply delaying it. I don't know when I will start, but I do know it will be on or before the 1st of January.

I've at least made a decent start.

I wrote 1,016 words today. With still two days left of school, it will be hard to work around them, but I will try. Once the holidays start, I'm hoping I'll be able to fall into a more regular pattern.

It is now well into early morning, so I shall sleep.

Good night.

I'm an idiot. I am completely devoid of self-discipline, and I consistently fail to meet my goals.

Quite possibly, it will happen again this time, but maybe if I aim so high as I am now, in the end I will still have something considerable even if I fail.

This December I am going to aim for 30,000 words. That's 1,000 words a day, and thus, absolutely ridiculous. Hell, that's my entire word count right now! But whatever, that's my aim regardless.

I'm starting this PerNoWriMo (or Personal Novel Writing Month) today, the 30th of November, to prepare myself for what's to come. I still have three days left of school before my two month holiday.

Although "systems" don't seem to be my forte, I'm going to try one out here:
- The first thing I will do each morning is write.
- I will reuse the system of "reading-writing / writing-reading" as in my last challenge.
- When I write, my aim for each day will be 1,000 words, but I will not write aiming for word count. Instead, I will aim to complete a number of scenes.
- I may stop once I reach 1,000 words, but no less.

Unfortunately, I won't have the comfort of knowing that people all around the world are also working hard at their novels. However, my friend has agreed to take the plunge as well, so I will have some support.

But now it's time for me to write!