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Haven’t written in awhile.  Winter is my excuse. 

Seems that short breaks can turn into long breaks.   I started writing again and I’m up to 25,000 words now.  Nothing spectacular but at least I’m getting somewhere.  Slowly.

Been writing some short stories for DargonZine.

Not sure how much more writing I’ll do but I’m taking a small break.

I checked.  July 2nd, I had 20,000 words.

Today I have 21,500 words.   Hope to write more this weekend.

I was out of town for almost a week but I managed to get some writing done.  I checked the whole month of June and I ended up writing about 8800-8900 words.  And then sometime around July 2nd, I hit 20,000 words.  Not bad so far.

So, I’ve been watching Buffy episodes while I write.  Kind of neat, really.  Although I should watch Buffy when I’m working on a horror story.  :)    Have gone through Seasons 1 and 2 doing this.  I’m on disc 3 of Season 3.  and I’m now at 15600 words.   Sort of a 1/4th done.

So, now I’m up to 14,300 words.  Man, this thing seems to go slowly.  But, looking back, I see a post where I only had 8000 words on June 3rd.  Back in May, it was 6100, so I think I can say that the start of June, I had 6100 words.  So, in 14 days, I’ve written 8200 words.  That’s not bad at all.  For me, at least.  It just seems to go by slowly.  Hopefully, I can keep up this pace.  It would be nice to have the novel done in 4-5 months.    Not looking for a huge 100,000 word novel here.  Warders was around 40,000.  I think I’d be happy if War of the Gates went to 60,000.

I started a new chapter.  Took about 1.5 hours and only wrote about two paragraphs.  I had to go back and reread some of Warders to get some background info and then figure out which characters would be there and which ones wouldn’t.  So, in this instance, research took most of the time.

 Got some more writing done.  Up to about 12,400 words.