Update
Life is o.k.
I'm happy to report that I'm going well with my resolutions for the year. Especially the one that goes "write every day." After fooling around with what works best for me, I've set the goal to write 300 words a day. This is modest as hell but reachable, and since I set this as my daily work goal I've only missed one day. Some days I do more, but typically I stop at 300, even leaving sentences unfinished (which gives me something immediate to get into when I start again).

Since I meet my goal every day, I feel accomplished all the time and optimistic, etc. I might bump it up to 400 or 500, but not much more. I'm exhausted on weekdays still, even with the re-tooled schedule which leaves me with more energy. Today I went to the store after work then crashed on the bed in all my clothes until 6:30, then headed to the coffee shop (where I am now) and wrote 300 words together with vegging out on the internet.

Another thing that is helping me write is that I don't worry about word choice or editing as I write. Only rarely do I restructure a sentence or stop and think about the unfolding of the narrative. I have a plot outline and I'm going with that. This isn't to say that I don't make new discoveries about the characters or the narrative as I go--I've learned a lot as I write, ideas often come in a rush--but I work them in in the heat of the moment, or else make a note somewhere of my discovery. But if I did worry about clause structure and rhythm and accidental rhymes as I went then I'd never get anything done. That used to be my problem when I wrote fiction in the past, and why I never finished anything. I'd break into a sweat and agonize over every line, every word and whimper that this was just too hard and could not be done.

When I've gotten to the end, that is when I will go back to edit. Then and only then.

I have one well-plotted story right now, 4,100 words are written of a projected 12,000. Another semi-plotted (mostly in my head) adventure/sword & sorcery story, about 3,700 words written and I have no idea how long that one will be. That's actually kind of pathetic, I should have more completed than this, but it has only been recently, since the new semester actually that I've been writing really in earnest, every day.

I'm also interested in the possibility of writing a narrative completely in the second person. How often has that been accomplished?

I'm also interested in the idea of writing collaboratively, writing and dropping the thread to have someone else pick it up and take it somewhere. Maybe a group blog.