I'm ending Day 2 with 3,416, which puts me just slightly ahead of where I ought to be. The good news is that I'm not behind yet, the bad news is that tomorrow I have to write basically all my words. The badder news is that my story is not good. It's really not. Somehow before all my beginnings have turned out pretty well and that at least gets me a rather inspired start. This year that is not the case. I have no description. My dialogue is trite. My plot is sparse at best and is taking me places that I don't know about which means my choices are to either make something up (hard to keep up over 50,000 words) or do research (slows the whole process down). I'm not really sure what I'm going to do about it. But for me to be stumped on page seven does not bode well. Week One is supposed to be this flurry of inspiration and Week Two is supposed to be the bog so I'm just not sure how this is going to work. I'm giving serious thought to starting Day 3 with the sentence "And then she woke up from a really strange dream, but couldn't quite remember it." And then restarting my novel along a different tangent. The only problem is that I don't even have another tangent to take right now! I'm beginning to think this was not a good week to give up soda. My only inspiration may be found in the bottom of a Coke.