NaNoWriMo update: I can see 18,000 and it looks so awesome!

So when we last left our hero (who is me, in this instance) I was at just under 15,000 words and discouraged as heck. The problem at hand was that I had veered very far from my outline and felt like I was wasting my time doing work I was only going to have to cut out later.

So I went out with my husband and we talked out the plot for a very long while and figured out where I went wrong so I could fix it. This involves back tracking a smidge and rewriting a scene so that it happens differently ...