I’ve just checked in on my word count for Book #2 of the trilogy thing, and the last week has been a bit of a creep. It’s coming to 30,306, which isn’t a massive improvement on my last update – in terms of sheer wordage it’s a bit pants, in fact – but much of the work has involved turning notes and rough ideas into actual (hopefully readable) stuff, like proper sentences. Sometimes even paragraphs.

I think that I’ve got rough – as in crawling out of bed at 3:00 am, unshaven, dishevelled and slightly worse for wear – versions of the first five chapters all sorted, and I know how the plot’s going to go, although I’m leaving the end until I get there so it surprises me.

So all in all, I’m still a happy camper.