A brief check-in:

I’m a bit over 13K words short of my 50K goal, and have only 7 days left! And just when I needed them most, Grant Faulkner’s comforting words came via NaNoWriMo’s Pep Talk series:

View the blank page as an invitation to drop a bucket into the well of your imagination. Don’t write what you know, write what you want to know.

I want to know where my story is going, and the only way to find out is to write it. So, here we go.