Wait, what?

FOUR DAYS TILL NANOWRIMO!

Kill me now. My plot's unraveling on it's own, suddenly my character wants to have a crush on a certain other character, and I have a gazillion minor characters floating around. It's gonna take more than candy to fix this. And my characters want to start clicheing my fantasy. *headdesk*

Er. There was a point to this rant. It got lost though.

Onwards! What's helped you win NaNo in the past? So far I've got a word-count calendar as my desktop, bribes piled up, and I plan to crank out 3,000 words on Day 1 as a reassurance.

What works? Calendars, bribes, days off, splitting first day word-counts, dares, word wars or other? And what word count goals are you setting? I forgot to ask earlier. 50K is mine. I've heard of 400k winners though... whoa.

4 days... *falls over*

~Tawnydust