I had a brainstorm during work (I wrote "at" work but these days that's my living room) which resulted in me sending myself a few notes about an idea that might keep me from losing a character I have been back and forth and back and forth and back and forth over whether he actually needs to be there (he still might not need to be there tbh), gives a little more depth to a side character and might give me some better options on how the story ends. Will it make the story longer and more complicated? Oh, probably.

Didn't result in more actual words but I got down another page of notes after work and I know what scene I need to tinker with next. Also, I remembered it was the beginning of a new month and backed everything up to my external hard drive.