author: Nicole J. LeBoeuf

In case anyone's been paying attention to such things: Yes, my word count is somewhat lower than 50K. Have faith; all shall be as before, and better! Or at least that's what I keep telling myself. Remember what I said about having to generate more first draft as part of the rewrite? Yeah. Only, thankfully, it's sort of draft one-and-a-half, because this new material is being written by someone who actually knows where she's going. Joy!

Today's a home-all-day-writing day, so this afternoon after a couple hours on the other novel I should be able to whip out Chapters 6 and 7. Those'll be a mix of old material and new--there's still Brian's reunion at the house with Amy and what that reveals, only without the "just testing you" trip to the airport since Brian instead spent the evening getting reacquainted with his brother; and there'll be a bit more time, character development, and believable events between now and the end of the first half of the book.

I'm kicking myself for how many days I let go by without working on this poor beastie, but with any luck I'll make up the time and get it done by the end of the weekend--only a week later than my original plan--at which time I'm estimating the word count'll be closer to 75K and the chapter count'll be a nice round 20. If that doesn't happen, you have my permission to send me mocking emails on Monday.