Well, Nanowrimo is over. The novel is not done. Mr. Ips. has told me I need to keep going, not lose myself in the winter depression to where I don't write at all. Holidays depress me, as do the days getting even shorter. My health issues are ever present - now both knees are in pain for absolutely no reason at all, my hamstring isn't healing, and my gut is full of gas pain, even as the really nasty pains have died down. All that leads to the blahs, receding from society and friends and depression.
So, Mr. Ips. has asked me to at least write one page a day on Seeing Shadows. 250 words. I averaged 2174 words a day during Nano. I've decided to up his request, at least here in December, to 500 words a day - two pages. If I get into it, I can write more. If I just don't have anything at all in me - two pages is bluffable. And it could be I'll sit down feeling uninspired and while in my office at the laptop I'll feel inspired.
I've never been able to write in the winter because of the depression - maybe Mr. Ips. is right, that I've been setting my goals too high. I expect summer quantity out of my winter sludgy brain. Hopefully this will be the year I keep going and finish a novel in the winter.
So, to the top left I have my "write or die" meter which will show my progress - 15,500 words (62 pages) is 500 words a day.