Update:
As of 11:59 p.m. on 11/18 I have 22,863 words. That was a just-at-quota 5,000ish Friday-Sunday, 2,000ish on Monday, and under a 1,000 today.

Morale:
Not yet overcome with despair.

Excerpt:

I am a terrible aunt to Owen. I count my first failure from the day he was born, when I couldn't talk his parents out of giving him that name.