Happy birthday to me. (grin)

We're going to be leaving town in about five hours, so I'm doing a bit of 'after midnight' writing, to cover what I need for the day. Started book 8. I don't intend to rush through this one quite as fast. I figure I'll give myself a whole month.

And the other new novel... well, I might start that later today, or I might just keep doing the backround work on it for a few more days. I had a breakthrough on the secondary character, and I'm not entirely sure I want to go that way... but suddenly things fell into place, including a news report on CNN a few days ago. We'll see...

But right now I'm going to write a few hundred more words, and then head for bed.

I hope to have a nice day. We'll see. At least I'll be away from home for a few hours!

There. Done. 79,350 words in two weeks. Ha!

Did I get done?

No.

I got down to the last TWO PHASES and got so incredibly ill that I couldn't go on. I crawled off to bed. I've been up for a few hours now, feeling somewhat better, and I'm going to finish this last few hundred words.

Two phases. I can do this...

And then it didn't post for some reason. Figures, huh? (Talking about post below with odd looking squirrel.)

I am feeling mostly better today. I hope to have the novel done in the next few hours. Then I'm going to spend the rest of the 7th doing notes for a novel that has nothing to do with the book I'll start on the 8th. I'm sure this makes sense. I just... well, I have one of those new stories in my head that will not get out, and I'm going to have to do something with it soon. I was just lucky that I had a definate, stated in public, goal for book 7 and 8 or I'd have dropped them already. And that isn't good, really. I need discipline.

I need more time, so that I can work on the new novel, too.

Okay, stop that. Back to Book 7. I have 30 phases left to go. The novel is going to run about 75 to 80,000 words in the first draft, which is really good for me.

Off to work... I'll be back later if I get done early enough!

Yes, I missed a day. I was too ill to get out of bed for more than a few minutes. I wrote an entire 709 words on the novel.

I'm better today, though still not great. Well enough, however, to do some typing and see if I can't get this novel done in the next two days. I'm close. I just hope I can sit through it.