I had a hard time getting started today. But I did, finally, by jumping to the end of the story, and now I'm closing down for the day with 3110 new words, and 17220 overall.

I'm finding that I really love the second half of this story, and am exceedingly bored by the first half. I think that means that I should cut the first half and go on without that story arc. The more I think about it, the easier that solution seems...