Day Six - Getting Ahead

So, my goal this weekend is to get to 15000 words by Sunday night.  That would place me ahead by two days (Sunday night's NaNoWriMo goal is 11668 words).  I have 5000 words to write to accomplish this, but at least I'm not behind right now. 

It may be worth mentioning right now that NaNoWriMo changed the stats displayed on the Writer's Stats part of each user's page.  Whereas it used to display the target goal for the day and the number of words the writer had left until they achieved it, it now displays an "At this rate you will finish on" and the suggested word count does not change as the number of words you write goes over the required amount for the day.

I don't like the changes.  I liked the feeling of pride that came with watching my recommended word goal for the day shrink.  It made me feel accomplished - like I was actually doing something.  Now it just says that I'm not going to finish in  November (Current "At this rate you will finish on" is December 01). 

Pretty much what I'm saying is I would like the NaNoWriMo site designers to put it back so that I feel better about NaNoWriMo.

Is that too much to ask?

Or is the 5000 words in the next 25 hours and 20 minutes a more outrageous goal?

We shall see.