Okay, so I quit writing the novel yesterday and started something new.
Why, Joy? Why would you do that? You were doing so well!!
Well, yes, I sort of was, but it was like pulling teeth and it was making me crazy. The problem I had was that I was attempting to combine the plots and characters of two novels that I had already started and abandoned in the hopes of coming up with one cohesive tale. But the whole point of this NaNoWriMo challenge is that you are aiming for quantity and not quality. I felt lke I was doing a rewrite, so the words weren't coming and the ideas weren't crystallized enough for me and I just wound up getting more and more frustrated, until finally I looked at my computer screen and just said, "Fuck it." I don't have to be writing this story at this time. I can start something new and fresh and then I won't feel like I'm under any pressure to make it perfect becaus I will know that editing will come later.
And so, I'm off and running. 1271 words in about 45 minutes of writing thus far, so I am much closer to being on track than with the other story.
So again, I say, YAY ME!