Excerpt

NaNoWriMo takes a quantity over quality approach to writing. You simply won't have time to finish your 50,000 words in 30 days if you think about what you're writing as you go along. Trying to cram as many words as possible into as little time as possible leads some people to write sentences like this:

One day, Oliver, the strongest and sweetest cup of Earl Grey tea to have recently returned from the dead, was meditating in his favorite spot on his favorite tuft of grass under his favorite cork tree next to his favorite chrysanthemum, and the world, if he had been thinking about it instead of meditating, would have seemed very nice indeed, when all of a sudden his meditation, because he must not have been meditating very hard after all, was interrupted by a biscuit, the English kind that’s actually a cookie, grazing its way over to him through the clump of flowering bushes that framed the front of his hermit-cave so prettily.

I just thought you all might like to know that my NaNo is progressing slowly and disjointedly. It's day 9, and I'm already 4000 words behind, so I hope you feel better about yourselves, knowing that even my superior awesomeness falls short of perfection.