Nine days left of NaNoWriMo!

Hey, everyone!
   
    I've been pretty inactive lately, but I'm definitely being creative while I'm gone. This year I'm participating in my second year of NaNoWriMo. 

    My project this year is a Young Adult High Fantasy Fairy Tale Retelling of one of my favorite childhood fairy tales. This originally was not the project I was going to work on but this one grabbed ahold of me and demanded to be put in front of everything else. 

    Despite all of my outlining and planning (and knowing where ultimately the story needs to go) this story has pulled me in and poured out of me, surprising me in the most interesting ways. The goal of NaNoWriMo is to write 50,000 words by the end of November but I passed 50k last Friday (November 18). I'm now just passed the 55,100 mark after taking a little break over the weekend. I'm thinking I have maybe 5,000-10,000 more words left before this novel is finished but with what I expect to be a large chapter coming up, we'll see if it doesn't come out to just a little more than that. I'm really excited about this one, I really think it's one of the better projects I've put forth and definitely one of the ones I've been most passionate about.

    Are you participating in NaNoWriMo? With about 8 days and 30 minutes left, how far are you into your project? Is the writing flowing or are you finding yourself stuck at a certain section? Either way, I know you can do it, so keep going!