Me too.

I just know I'll fail miserably, but I have this story I've never found time to write, and it promises to be fun...

School will be starting again on the third, so hopefully, I'll be able to write during free periods, breaks, and boring lessons, and on the train.
I'm trying to get a head start by revising now so I won't have to study so much during the first few weeks, and I'm practising touch typing, so I'll be as well-prepared as I can be, but I still believe I will fail miserably, just so I won't be disappointed if I do.

Nonono! Magpie, belief is the key to completing this! You see, I AM going to finish this. No matter what. Last year I wrote almost 80k, so you should be able to do 50k no problem!

Cool, a mom-son write-in!

Not I, I'm afraid.  The last week of November is simply impossible due to Black Friday preparations, but I'll be in VA from the 13th-19th with plenty of downtime, and theoretically I could set myself a goal to write 50k in 19 days, buuuut the new Warcraft xpac comes out on the 13th, and I don't think I could do 50k in two weeks.  *g*

Maybe 25k in two weeks?

Bleh, I can't reach the Nano site anymore. :(

Yay! I have an ending!

Though now I realize I need to get a better idea of what happens at the beginning/in the middle.

I just know it, I'll write about 5K and then it'll say,
"Suddenly he fell into a plot hole and broke his neck.
The End."

Oh, all right, I know - optimism. Optimism.
So, instead, it'll say, "He took a shortcut through a plot hole and ended up in the next place where I know something's gonna happen (and it conveniently took him back in time, too, because he should have been there a month ago)."

Sound like good Nano-techniques. My own technique is to keep pestering myself with the question "And then?"

Eek, I just found out that the book I want to write will have to be about 365k. (One k per day, as that would probably be about five minutes of reading out loud.)

Almost midnight... almost...

And I feel a bit better now, so I think I can actually write.

So I tried to start writing in German... absolutely impossible. I felt like it was nothing but pointless, clumsy rambling. Of course, that might also have been because it was midnight, but when I continued later on Saturday, I decided to try in English, and it worked much better. Apparently, I'm so used to writing (and reading) in English that I can't express myself in my native language any more.
Sad, really.

I'm currently 2K behind my schedule, because I couldn't write yesterday. And I'm just not used to having a deadline anymore... been years since I had to write an essay or a paper for school!

Turns out I won't be able to write any more today, either. Gah!