NaNoWriMo Week Four--The Beginning of the End

Current word count: 34,034

According to Chris Baty, everyting after 35K is downhill. My story should begin to wrap up and my characters will learn the lessons they were meant to learn. Everyone will hold hands and sing right before collapsing into a big orgy--or at least that's what I have in mind.

I will have written about 4K words by the end of today. I'm hoping to get 5K by the end of tomorrow, leaving only 10K to be completed by Sunday. The family will be here Wednesday afternoon until Friday morning, but after that, I'll be throwing myself into ending this novel.

Current worries:

• Not having enough story to make it to 50K.
• Something in my life going completely crazy and prohibiting my ability to finish.
• (And this is the big one) The work I've been slaving away on for the past month will end up being one huge piece of crap, not worthy of another human ever reading.
  

Okay, so even if it is a steaming piece of literary defecation, it's my creation. It's probably comparable to those people who have really ugly babies--you know the, "Oh, what a cute outfit!" babies. It's ugly, it stinks, and it sounds funny, but it's a piece of them. I'm guessing that's the way I'll feel about this novel when it's done.