 Hello, this is actually editing Jackie here from the future and I realized that I did not do an intro for this video. So this is my week two of Nana Raimo blog and my husband Drew and I actually went on holidays in Portugal this week. So it's a bit of both a riding and a travel blog. So now we're going to go back in time to Geneva Airport last Sunday. So it turns out I misread our departure time. I thought we were leaving at 11.30. Turns out we're leaving at 1.30 so now we're at Geneva Airport three hours early. And it's not that big an airport. So we found a cafe. We're going to get some early lunch and chill for the next few hours. Hello from Porto Portugal. So my husband and I just landed. We made our way to the metro and discovered it's a 26 minute wait for the next train. So so we waited three hours at the airport. Now 26 minutes for this then our Airbnb. It turns out you don't actually get the keys from the Airbnb. You need to pick it up at like some guest services place first and then walk from there. So like all of these are very small problems. And it feels like we're just been so much of today waiting and I haven't used any of it for riding. And now my laptop's dead because I was editing last week's blog on the plane. So I guess more Duolingo for 26 minutes. Good morning. It's Monday the 8th in November. So officially week two with Nana Rhymo and no, I did not do any writing yesterday. So I'm still at 2033 words. And unfortunately I slept terribly last night. I slept for about four hours because we got a one bedroom apartment. But it turns out the door on the bedroom isn't like a proper door. It's like sliding door. So it does nothing to keep out noise and Drew and I sleep at different times. So I'll often go to bed like good four hours before he does. And I mean, I could hear everything he was doing. Like I could hear him crumpling his potato chip packet. So didn't get to sleep until after two was up around 620. And I'm seriously considering like getting another Airbnb because we're here for five night or four more nights and I need to write and I can't be wrecked when I go back to work next week. So that's that. The plus side is I have a recommendation for some of the best Portuguese talents in Porto. So I'm going to pick some of them up now. So what I didn't realize was that we actually have a bakery right like on the ground floor of this building of the building next door. So I still went like the 500 meters to pick up the recommended ones. But I figured this will be a good baseline and then I can judge all of the other Portuguese tarts against them. So I should have gotten a plate out for this. This is going to be a flaky mess. Let's see. That's good. So yeah, off the top of my head, I don't actually remember what the place was called. It does look a bit like a tourist trap that was recommended by a local. So I'll put the name on the screen here. So if you're in Porto, get these egg tarts from there. Happy Tuesday. It is 8 a.m. on what was the day today? The 9th of November. It's the day 9 of Nana Raimo and I finally did some writing. So yesterday I didn't end up doing anything. I did some like outlining just based on the ideas I had when I couldn't sleep the night before, but I was just so exhausted yesterday. Like I ended up sleeping about four hours and was, I felt jet lagged. I was so tired and my body was aching. So I'm like, okay, I'm just going to take the day off because it was almost like that moment in Nice where it was the first day and I thought, okay, I'm going to do videos. And then I was just wiped out. So I'm like, I have one week off and back to work tomorrow. I can't afford to spend a getting wiped out. I need to take care of myself. So that was that. But I did work this morning. So I wrote for about an hour and 15 minutes and I did 1,782 words. So that's not bad. Obviously not on track for Nana Raimo yet, but it's the most I've written since Nana Raimo started. So I'm calling that a win. Ultimately though, I have been rethinking my Nana Raimo goals. And while I would still love to write 50,000 words, I'm still open to that magically happening. I think the real goal for me is going to be finding a way that I can write consistently with this job because, you know, if I could write 500 words a day or 500 words, five days a week, then I'm still making progress as opposed to working really hard to push out a few thousand words to catch up to my Nana Raimo goal and then being drained for a week after. So yeah, we'll still see how much I can get done in this holiday, but when I get back, I think sustainability is going to be the goal. But since today went well, let's look at updating my stats. So this graph is so depressing. So this is where I should be today, 15,003 words and I'm still at 2033 words. So let's add a new update. Yay! And look at that. It goes up just a little itty bitty bit. So now I'm just like 11,000 words behind. That's, I can make that. So today, Drew and I are doing like historical walking tour of Porto that will go from 10 to one and then we've got the afternoon free after which we might go see this palace down the road, which we might have a look at. Or I'm also considering getting a massage because the price of massages here is half what they are in Switzerland. So I should take advantage of that. Hello and happy Wednesday. So I just finished a morning writing session. It is quarter past eight. I wrote for I think 64 minutes and I did 1621 words. So I'm pretty happy with that because it's better than having no words, but I'm also happy with what I wrote basically anytime I get to have like a scene where I'm obsessing about how beautiful one of these statues is. It's like, like I can just talk this girl is so beautiful and look at all of the detail and how did the artist and do it and the words just come and I don't know if it's interesting for anyone but me that I am really enjoying those parts. So I still haven't gotten to the end of the bit that I'd outlined when I couldn't sleep the other night. I've got like basically one conversation left, which I think I'll do later today just because at the moment I do feel like I've run out of a little bit of steam. So I would like to go out for a walk. But the good thing is is that I've got a message booked for 2 p.m. today and then we've got a food tour at 4 p.m. But before that, there's nothing set in stone. So I think I'll go for a walk. I want to see a bookshop which the couple of times we've walked past it so far. There's been this massive line to get in. So I'm hoping if I get there as soon as it opens, I won't need to wait in the line, but we'll see. So I'll go for my walk, see the bookshop and then come back and do a little bit more writing and then go out, massage food and come back and do a bit more writing after that. So I think this will hopefully be a good day in terms of word count. And if not, I definitely want to get the next bit planned out so that'll set me up for the next couple of days. But now though, let's update my results. Can I just say I'm loving for the words for getting back into writing? I have used it in the past, but just let's turn this back towards myself. So the thing about for the words is there are lots of different challenges. So you can just like pick a monster and fight it. That's based on either word count or endurance. You can also do the quest, which is like a story. And in the main quest, I'm up to a bit where I've got like one monster that's 4,000 words and I haven't felt like I'm in enough of a flow or had a big enough chunk of stuff to do in a single session to tackle that yet. But for November, because it's not a rhino, there are a whole lot of special quests happening. So I've loaded up my quest book to take on all of these different quests, which involve fighting different monsters and you get rewards for them. And some of the monsters like have bigger word counts. So, you know, a couple of thousand, but some of them are really small and I've got one quest that I've just started where you need to defeat 44 monsters, but it's this monster that's 50 words and it's five minutes per battle. So it's really good for just like having something that's really achievable. I know I can always write an extra 50 words and get it done. So yeah, this is a somewhat rambly way of saying this is a good tool and you can set it up. So it serves you and what's serving me at the moment is having these really small word count goals to get out of the way just so I keep writing. Now back to updating my stats. 1621 I felt really good today at home on a laptop started at what time did I start 710? I think and finished at 814 update progress. So five and a half thousand words and if I look at my stats so five and a half thousand words or so I should be like 16 and a half. So I'm maintaining being 10,000 words behind, but it is only Wednesday. Like I said, I am planning to write again later today. I still have after this another four days off work because I've got Thursday Friday in the weekend. So could I write 10,000 words? It's not even 10,000 words in that time because it's 10,000 plus the 667 words I need to write every day. So let's say that's about 4,200 words a day. Seems like a lot. So maybe I can't write 4,200 words a day, but I think I can stay on track. So I'm very comfortable with that and I'm very happy to already have 11,000 words in a new manuscript. So I'm waiting for this famous old bookshop to open. It's actually the third time I've tried visiting it in three days because the last two days we came around lunchtime and the line was just huge. Like I think I've got a clip from a couple of days ago where it went like down the street. So at the moment it isn't even open yet. We've got maybe another 20 minutes before the store opens and already like the line is a good, probably 50, 60 people deep. But I'm probably not going to be back here again for some time. So we're doing this and something I forgot to say is apparently the reason this is so popular now is because people think that J.K. Rowling got her inspiration here for some of the libraries of the architecture at Harry Potter and she's actually verified that this isn't the case of like what she's written has nothing to do with this but clearly either they're still capitalizing on it or people still think it is. So hence the line. So that was absolutely gorgeous. I'm so glad I went. I'm so glad I got there before nothing 30 because even though like I was waiting for 20 minutes before it opened once the doors opened I was in there within like five or six minutes. So it wasn't that long away. Whereas now like the queue is huge. So if I'd come later in the day I probably wouldn't have bothered but the building is so beautiful. Shame about the number of people but I can also understand why there are so many people especially if like Harry Potter has been attached to this and one of the other things is you do need to pay for a ticket to go in the basic one is five euros but if you buy a book that gets taken off the price of the book. So I got this belly of the dolls which I've never read but it sounds really good and look at the edges of the pages. I don't know what this is called but they're all this like deep red pink color and I have another book at home with a similar effect. It's Dark Matter by Blake Crouch and that one's actually quite stunning because the covers red and the edges of the pages of red and it's just yeah you look at it and go wow and I don't know how much extra it costs for publishers to do that sort of thing but I see that I'm like oh I really hope like one day I have a book with that sort of finish like I hope one day I have a book with like gold foil on the cover or you know the edges of the pages stained I really should learn what this is called and yeah I don't know it's just something that makes books a little bit special and I don't tend to read physical books that much anymore because obviously living overseas. So it's just a nice treat to have something new to read and extra benefit is it's also beautiful. I don't know if you can hear the music. There's like an sort of open air cafe in the park next to me and they're getting their groove on for the day so from here I'm going to head back to the Airbnb and see if Drew is up and then I think we might check out the Stock Exchange Palace because that looks pretty pretty. It looks like Drew is still in bed so that means I get to have my very nutritious doughnut for breakfast and work on some more writing. Oh my god this is so good. I'm telling you by the end of this trip I am not going to have any teeth left because I will have eaten more sugar than most people eat in the lifetime. So I've done about 40 minutes of writing. Drew is up and in the shower so we're going to head out to the Stock Exchange Palace which is down the road and I've done another 1500 words so that brings my daily total up to over 3000. I'm also at the end of the bit that I've planned so it's time to plan a little more and when I say the bit that I've planned like I have done a rough outline for the whole book but I haven't done an outline scene by scene so that's what I mean when I'm talking about planning at the moment. I did run into a little problem towards the end of the scene because there was so Kiara gets home after having been kicked out of the glass workshop by her master because she keeps breaking things because she's distracted and she discovers other glass girl statues so she's running through Venice trying to find them and her brother comes to find her and drags her home because she's like in a bit of a state and not fit to be seen in public and when she gets home her father gives her a bit of a lecture which is you know don't get distracted by these statues they're some prank no one knows where they came from or who made them and yet you're working with the greatest glass master in Murano this is a huge opportunity not many people get it much less girls you've been invited to work with him on the Carnival float so don't waste this opportunity and on her side she's like yes but these these girls are the best thing I've ever seen I need to find out who made them I want to work with the best and the person who made them is the best and he's like don't throw away this opportunity so they have this argument it seems to get resolved and then in my original planning I wanted to have another argument which is about the mask that her mother bought her for Carnival because in my research I discovered a type of mask called the Moreto or Cervetta Muta I think which means mute servant and the way it works is it's like a circular velvet mask it only has eye holes so no mouth and it has no straps either because the way you keep it on is there is a button on the inside of the mask and the woman wearing it because only women wear this one they need to bite down on the button so while they're wearing the mask they can't speak hence the mute servant name and I find this incredibly insulting and I am morally opposed to this mask and I thought it would be fun if like the mother chose this mask for her because it's very fashionable and they had an argument about that so we've had a little argument about that and how she won't be silenced because she's 15 and teenagers don't want to be silenced and you know YA is fun but I don't think it fits here because we've just had another argument with her dad so I wrote it just because it was in the plan and maybe I'll fit it somewhere else but part of me also thinks maybe I'll just need to cut it and find some other way to talk about this stupid mask but anyway 3,000 words in a day is good I'm gonna update my nano-rono stats and yeah go out to the stock exchange palace now unfortunately it turns out the stock exchange palace is not closed but booked out for now so we didn't realize you needed to book in advance which is very annoying considering you can't actually book on the website so we won't be doing that today because it'll run into our other activities so we're gonna do some shopping maybe pick up some food and I've been told by my artistic director Drew to face this way because there's a very impressive church behind me good morning it's Thursday I just spent about an hour writing and got another 1,369 words done and I'm very like I'm very curious to see how I feel about this when I reread it because one it is quite rough I've already mentioned there are a lot of gaps due to my like knowledge about Renaissance Venice so there is a lot more filling in than I've had to do with other drafts that I've done because this is based on a place that I don't know very well whereas Paulus was in Estonia so the well building didn't really have to be done so much like it was said in a world I understood and even reciprocal stalking which I got to like 30 or 40,000 words before putting it aside like that was based in New York which I wouldn't say I know that well but I've been there a number of times so it's not like I was starting from scratch whereas now it's like we go to a room and there's a note described room later or just notes to myself going find out what this thing is called or if they had this thing so that's fun the other thing I'm curious about though is to see whether it feels really self-indulgent because there's so much I don't know just Chiara waxing lyrical about this statue that she's obsessed with which is fair enough it's becoming an obsession I don't know if I'm going overboard though but I do like writing it so I continued on from where I was yesterday where she had the argument with her family and ran out and then she's gone to see the statue again and she's just had her moment with the statue and from here I need to do some more outlining but I know she needs to go back there a third time which will happen the next day and she needs to find a clue to where the whereabouts of its maker is so that's the next bit I need to outline as far as our holidays concerned this is our last full day in Porto and while I'm glad we will have the full weekend when we get back to get settled before work I do wish we had more time just because I want to write more like I like having time to write and not having to worry about work I also do have a small freelance thing that I need to get out of the way and now it's like do I do that on the trip back tomorrow or do I keep writing like there might not be enough time to do both so we'll see anyway today it is our last full day but I think we're going to take it fairly easy we'll try to see the stock exchange Palace I also ended up booking another massage because yesterday's one was so good and they're so much cheaper here than they are in Switzerland so I'll be doing that around lunchtime and then the afternoon's free so I went out and got our tickets to the stock exchange Palace I got some cash out for the masseuse later this afternoon got home saw that Drew was in his underwear doing jewelry goes so not ready for the day yet is now in the shower and it's coming up to midday but I just saw her an email and a text from the masseuse saying she'd injured her shoulder and unfortunately can't work today so now we've got the stock exchange to a scheduled for 3 30 and nothing until then and I don't know like whether we want to try to squeeze in something before then or whether we'll just relax for a bit I also just made myself an omelet so like I'm not going to go out and eat lunch and I know these are very small problems to be complaining about the good thing is is maybe this is some time for some more writing and happy Saturday Drew and I are back in Switzerland we came home yesterday and I'm really surprised at how long a day it was in fact as an Australian who used to travel to Europe and the US fairly regularly I'm a little bit ashamed of how white doubt I was because we left the Airbnb in Porto at like 9 a.m. local time and got back here between 4 and 4 30 I think and yeah I was just exhausted I was white down so I didn't end up getting any writing done I did do a little bit of freelance work that had been like on the backlog for a couple of weeks so that's something but yeah I was just so mentally spent so on Thursday I actually ended up doing a second writing session and got about 900 words in which brought me down to only 9,000 words behind but then of course yesterday I skipped a day and today I haven't written anything yet it's already 4 30 p.m. and yeah I'm at 9,221 words and need to have 21,671 words so I'm now 12,000 words behind I still have hope for today it is not the end of the day yet I am have been really struggling just to get motivated I think I know it's strange because on one hand I'm so glad that we had a holiday and a week off and I do feel like having the mental break from work was good but I didn't mention this when I was filming I really struggled to sleep in the air B&B it wasn't really comfortable for two people to be there for several days it was like the sort of place where you probably only want to be there for one or two days so yeah by yesterday I just had a number of nights without very good sleep so even today I'm still feeling a little bit like a zombie but I spent enough time procrastinating I've spent enough time doing productive things as well like I've cleaned my room I've been to the gym and I can't keep putting off working on this book so I'm going to have a shower to see if I can wake myself up again and then get writing ideally it would be nice to get 2,000 words out today because then I'll be back at only 10,000 words but if I did 800 that'll bring me up to 10,000 drafted in this book for Nana Rhymo which I'd be happy with so let's see how I go so I had my shower I put on a face mask to try and fix this situation that's happening after lack of sleep and too much rich food and I did nothing for a good hour and a half and I actually got to the point where I went okay clearly it's not going to happen today like I was thinking about it I was trying to do some research but I just couldn't quite think of what to write in the next bit that made me excited I was like she can skip work the next day go back to see the girl and get a clue and I was like that's fine but I wasn't really feeling excited about it so I actually said okay let's just skip today it's not going to happen I might as well just dedicate this full day to rest and then I can do something tomorrow and then the moment I gave myself permission to rest I had an idea which is she skips work she goes back to the warehouse to see the statue of the girl and it's gone and that puts her into this desperate state of mind like where did she go who took her how am I going to find her now and it's in this desperate search that she finds an engraved plate of glass that tells her she needs to find three clues to find the girl and her maker and what's interesting is that this is the second time this has happened in the last week in fact the exact same thing happened when I got to Porto and couldn't sleep for the first night and I knew what was going to happen next she was going to go back and visit the girl and I just wasn't feeling that excited about that and the random idea I had was what if she decides she's going to be good she's not going to go after the girl and she instead stumbles across one of the other statues that we learned about in the prologue so it's really interesting how when you give your brain a little bit of time that these new ideas can spark so all in all I did one thousand four hundred and twenty words which brings me to ten thousand six hundred and forty three words my laptop's down there so I'm now eleven thousand words behind instead of twelve thousand words behind which is better than it was this morning so that's fine so from here and like I said I want to do a little bit of brainstorming and planning for tomorrow and then tomorrow I think my big goal is going to be doing enough brainstorming and outlining that'll carry me through the work week because what I saw last work week was that if I already had something to start with it was fine but if I didn't I just didn't have the time to think of new stuff so hopefully I can do my thinking for the week tomorrow it is Sunday night and I've just finished a session that went for almost two hours and I wrote just under three thousand words so two thousand nine hundred ninety four I think that brings me to thirteen thousand six hundred and thirty seven words and I'm still about ten thousand words behind I should be around twenty three thousand three hundred having said all of that this week I did do about the amount you're supposed to do for NaNoWriMo so I believe one thousand six hundred and sixty seven words a day for seven days is like eleven thousand six hundred and sixty nine and I think I did about eleven thousand six hundred this week so if NaNoWriMo had started last week I would be on track and that's despite having Monday and Friday off so I'm pretty happy with that I don't know how I'm going to catch up in the next two weeks but we'll see anyway it's coming up to seven I need to have dinner I need to edit this vlog actually so I'm going to wrap things up here please let me know how your NaNoWriMo is going in the comments if you liked please like subscribe hit the notification bell and do everything that will keep the gods of YouTube happy and I will see you next time