... and feeling like, “Okay, something needs to happen soon. Something needs to gel. Because I’m 2,500 words behind, I’ve exhausted my inspiration for today and I seriously don’t know how I’m going to write 25,000 more words.”

Ah, welcome to the NaNoWriMo blues. I seem to recall I had the same experience the last two times around, and somehow something came through. Which doesn’t mean that my current cluelessness doesn’t feel any less real… :-)