I have, twice, decided I needed to scrap everything before the current chapter. So I wrote notes on what to change and forged on. So at the moment I have fragments of three timelines. One from deciding I really, really, cannot write small children and jumping the character up three years. This means I still have to write her as small child when I rewrite the early chapters, but at least she won't be quite as small. Then, the next day, I realized that way back when I laid out my chapters I had made a horrendous goof with the science behind it all. I either had to shift everything to start a month earlier or two months later. Since I was already rewriting everything up to the previous chapter I went and shifted things back. Thematically it works better to start and end on the threshold between winter and spring anyway.

So, yeah, I'll get to 20k tonight and won't fall behind but there is one heck of a lot of rewriting before this thing sees the light of day. I actually had the urge to throw up my hands and write on one of my older NaNo stories today rather than deal with this one.

So I guess my point was it could be worse? :D I can't say I love my characters this year, but I don't hate them, and Karen is now at an age I can actually write so maybe she'll get loveable soon.