Thank you both.
I'd be even farther along if work didn't make me whiff on two days. :B
But that said, I just did another 1925 to reach a total of 20,000, and I am deciding I'm going to quit the challenge here, at least as far as trying to hit a word count or writing just write every day. At this point, I don't think it's conducive to actually helping me improve on what I'm struggling with in regards to my writing. I already know I can crush the 50k word goal if I have something I want to write about.
The real challenge for me nowadays is finding a project and sticking to it long enough to see it through, and it's been so long since I've managed to do that, not just improvising scenes, but actually having a
story planned out and worked on past the impulse phase. So I'm going to shift gears and goal posts. By the end of the month, I'm going to try to have at the very least an outline and mini-bible for a novel or short series mapped out, because even that level of creative writing accomplishment has been escaping me these last few years.
Maybe it'll be something I'll actually work on past the NaNo deadline. Maybe not.
Failing that, I'll just try to get more rough drafts of old shorts finally off the backlog, without worrying about how long they end up being or hitting the keyboard every day.
Either way, I feel that will be much more of a useful exercise than just shotgunning random blather onto my word processor.
Onward and sideward!