Writing Goals for the End of the Year

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I did not officially sign up for NaNoWriMo because deadlines and high pressure word counts aren't for me.  But I am going to attempt to get a certain story out of my head that has been rattling around in there for two years now, during the months of November and December.  I won't be giving up on the Doctor and Rose, they keep me sane, but I will likely be giving equal time to Catrin and Nate and their story.  My unofficial goal is to write 8000 words a week, half on Catrin and Nate and half on DW fanfic with an eye on finishing Leap of Faith.  I already know I can write 50,000 words in a month.  I wrote Wolf Moon in nine weeks and that was 118,000 words so...it's not like I can't do it when motivated and under the thumb of the muses.  I plan to write for two hours every day at least five days per week.  I can usually put out about 1500 to 2000 words in that amount of time, sometimes more if I don't pause for procrastination breaks.  But I'm not going to beat myself up over it if I don't make my word count each week.  This is for me, to prove to myself that I can still write something besides fanfiction.