d) I have about ~5000 words of the overaching story this is going to be a part of written, I need to fine tune it and make the pacing better, and it... is a story I've been trying to write for about three months now :P
I keep getting distracted by other things, but at the same time, the story is constantly shimmering (simmering?) (but also shimmering) somewhere in the layers of my day to day thought pattern.
I am too, putting too much of myself into the character, but that is a secret for me, and for you, and whoever reads this comment.