uh, at the time of this post i'm only at 10 947 words. (50 885 characters, 39 pages)
tender, it's cool that you are finally writing something you've been putting off for years (i am doing the same thing. i first came up with the idea for the novel i'm working on when i was in grade 7, maybe?) but the point of nanowrimo is that you're supposed to start from scratch on november 1st and write at least 1667 words per day. i've only been reaching about 1000 each day as well but that is not a "nice groove" , it's slacking on my part and i'm trying to catch up and it seems overwhelming. (what the hell happened to me being able to write like over 9000 words a day about nothing in particular?) the worst part is that i'm not neglecting nanowrimo for legitimate reasons such as work/school. i just write reeeeeeally fucking slowly.