Welcome, Amanda Butler!
Have you been involved with the regular NaNoWriMo writing challenge that takes place in November? I did not "win" this year, but I did write 45,000 words (which is more than I would have written if I had not taken the challenge.
Since November, I have been attending a writers' group meeting that is a branch-off of the November group. We meet twice a month--reading the writing of group members and critiquing. Then we also have "write-ins" twice a month--one is a structured write-in and the other is a free-write time.
How do you manage to keep writing?
Sue TK