Disclaimer: During my writer's crisis I thought it best to switch gears on my autobiography, something I definitely couldn't have done had it been pure fiction. Instead of going from past to present, I abruptly (after a brief explanation) move from somewhere during fifth grade to talking about college and begin going backwards into the past.

I'm not sure that it's working to tell the story I want to tell, but it's definitely getting the word count up. I'm able to write so much more vividly and so much more story-like with these more recent events, just because they are so recent. Stories from so long ago were a bit hazy and read a lot more like a scattered bit of what actually happened. Those parts ended up being not very involving and not very interesting, to tell the truth. The thing is, I know the whole story, so it doesn't matter that it's out of order, but to anyone else, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. It's probably a good thing, then, that no one but me will ever read this little slice of my life.

I love that NaNo makes this all okay.