I'm still debating which of my freewrites-turning-into-a-novella I would go with come November 1. Most urgent in my mind was One-Eyed Emil and the Shallow Grave, which was a contest entry, not a freewrite, and very rushed, and like almost all my Steemit stories, unfinished. Lizard-Boy Erik could easily morph into a 50K-word story. As could Ennis of the mountaintop. Meanwhile, I have two novels, one I've pared down to 130,000 words and still need to keep paring down, and one (a paranormal) that fell apart in an online fiction worshop ten years ago. I'm at a crossroads, wishing for an editor or co-author I could trust, but so far, I haven't found the right fit. I hired a $500 "professional" in 1999 for "Ironwolf," and a $100 professional edit for the paranormal, and both left me despairing of ever finding someone who "gets" my writing style and intent, and can make me succinct without an excess of butchery...
But the beauty of NaNo is that it is about WRITING new material, from scratch, not editing what we already wrote, not doing the work of getting it published, whether by agent or Indie Author.