UPDATE 11/21/19: After hitting 30K+ by day 14 and realizing I could continue writing - and easily hit 50K by Nov 30th - I decided the best decision right now wasnt to write another 20K of first draft material. What I needed to do was edit and publish the half dozen first drafts I already had laying around on my hard drive (some of which were from previous NaNoWriMos).

So thats what Im doing. Not sure if Im going to polish off a 40K novella I wrote last year or finish up the 6 short stories I...