Crack happens, that's what. mechanical pencil just wasn't working for me, and the only other thing I had was colorase pencils that i haven't used in ages. results under the cut. ( WTF, seriously. )
day 1: 1000ish day 2: 2,100 day 3: 2,900 (i can do better than this...)
day 5-7ish, 4k words. gave up. nano, at least this year, is stress i do not need. I like my particular world and characters and will continue to work on them. just not, i think, under nano's constraints.