Border hopping, I will assume you were near London or somewhere in Southern Ontario(I was born down there, but I'm far from there now, closer to Manitoba)I'm going to try the organic banana extract. Once they get a load of that, they'll be malingering constantly just to get some.
I'm sorry your autumn has been ruined! We've had two days of torrential rain, but the sun is out. Yes, we were practically neighbors! My ex-husband was Canadian and his family lived in Ontario, so always border-hopping.
I think 10K words is a milestone worth celebrating!
I get stumped and fizzle quite a bit because I hate doing grunt work to get through a blockage. I like the sparkly, fairy-dust inspired automatic writing that just happens! Once that peters out...I'm bored and frustrated. Then I get another sparkly idea and move on to that. It's awesome that you're 5 chapters in!
I hear ya on the new ideas, if I could write beginning chapters for a living I'd be just fine!I have zero problem starting a novel!