geekyWords: 4,385.
Total words: 46,986.
Reason for stopping: finished chapter thirteen.
Music: the Counting Crows, mostly. Because that's a shock.
Lilly and Alice: home from the vet and totally healthy. Yay, annual exams.
Apparently, officially becoming a novel was what it took to make me really start busting pages on Discount Armageddon, which has just gained another chapter and nearly 5,000 more words. Said chapter includes snark, combat, snark, sewers, snark, Land of the Lost jokes, snark, ballroom dancing applied to a field situation, and snark. Also, Sarah Zellaby—arguably one of my favorite characters in this series—has finally made her full-scale appearance, and she's just as awesome to write as I've been anticipating.
I'm starting to see the shape of the rest of the book more clearly as I near the halfway point. I now anticipate the full manuscript as coming in somewhere around 102,000 words, for the first pass, and reducing to approximately 99,000 words after I go through and do the obligate clean-and-jerk of all those little unnecessary bits that always creep in during the writing process. What's more fun is that I'm starting to see the shape of the series more clearly at the same time, and this is never not going to be fun to write.
Especially if Verity keeps kicking people in the head.
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