This was a pretty good year! I didn't like my story as much as I did in 2002, but at least I'm gonna finish, unlike last year.
And (believe it or not) I'm in a much more optimistic mode about writing in general than I've been in the past, partly because this time around I knew it wasn't anything publishable, even in my wildest dreams...so it was strictly an exercise. That kind of made it slightly easier. I've done no editing whatsoever, for example...
And it's 50k words that you've written! That's 50k closer to being a really good writer.