NaNo Mid-Point Check In

I’m going to keep this short ‘cause it’s been a long day (as I sit down to write this), and lots of us need to get right straight back to our NaNo writing for November 15.
I said I’d check in at the midpoint of November, so here I am (and THANK YOU for helping me stay motivated by giving me the specter of public shame if I failed to get any NaNo writing done!!! I can’t tell you how important that is to me).
So what’s the scoop?

Well, I’m not quite at NaNo par, which is 25,000 words—well, techni...