Brooding About Genre and Word Count

I could make it sci fi. All I have to do is give my character a cure that doesn't currently exist, right? Is that all it takes? Genre is so strange and complicated I can't quite figure it out.

When I signed up for NaNoWriMo this year I ended up in the chick lit section, I guess because my story is told from the POV of a chick. I just switched it over to romance because it is glaringly obvious that this book is not the book I thought I was going to write.

I hit fourteen thousand words before I quit for the night last night. So far so good.