accomplishedWords: 3,120
Total words: 52,260
Reason for stopping: finished chapter twenty.
Music: lots of Death Cab for Cutie.
Lilly: sleeping.
Having weathered the first big boom (which happened in chapter nineteen), I have now accomplished the Recovering From The Big Boom And Planning To Move Forward part of the book. Vitally important, and a place where I frequently tend to stall out. What's more, since I hit chapter, I get to devote the rest of the evening to my current, well-beloved drop-in chapter for Newsflesh. Zombies make everything better!
(Having processed a great many edits on A Local Habitation this morning, it occurs to me that I will go to bed tonight after spending quality time with the fae, a bunch of teenage lycanthropes, and the living dead. There are days when I realize that I am, in fact, living the life I dreamed about when I was in high school.)
This book remains projected at somewhere between 60,000 and 80,000 words for a first draft. I'm starting to think it's going to come down fairly squarely in the 72,000 word neighborhood, which will leave it around 65,000 in the second draft. That's a respectable length, and I'm not going to sneeze at it. Besides, I really like these people. They're fun to hang around with.
Life is good.
