I DID IT! I FINISHED THE NEVER-ENDING DRAFT OF THE NOVELLA!!!!
Clocking in at 30k words, it is the longest, hardest thing I have ever written.
It still needs another revision, but the shape is there, and so are the people and their world.
The story knows what it wants to be now.
Finally.
It's a good feeling, isn't it? For probably decades, I couldn't write anything longer than a short story, and I remember the feeling of elation when I finally produced something substantially longer. It was incredible.