I'm up to 5000. My heroine's landscape design has been rejected, her best friend is patronizing her, and her son won't talk to her. Mwahahaha. Now... enter Tall Dark Stranger. Well, he's entered already, but put him in proper perspective.
Well the toaster ditched the "stand-by-the-road-get-picked-up-and-driven-into-town approach. It ended up at the dump. so it said "the heck with that" and transformed himself into a flying wing under cover of darkness (lucky it was a new moon) and used its anti-grav propulsion to get to town. Guido is puzzled that there is no "Made in China" sticker on it.
I'm at 5000 words too, more or less. I wantet to be at 8000 (2000 words a day) so I'm making progress. It still sucks, but then my rough drafts always suck. I do a lot better after I've gotten everything down on paper and then put right.