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Word count in the morning?

Yes, because I was too wiped out to post it last night.

Didn't hit my goal, but I'll catch up by the weekend.

Still want to finish Dawn of Destiny this weekend. I've upped my total expected word count again...just because.

I don't think I'll finish in 5,000 words, so upping it to 150,000, so I have 10,000 words to play with is much more reasonable.

I still have to finish writing Robbie's rescue and Jeremy's rescue and the connection between Thai and Jeremy. I still have to establish the growing jealousy in Calla's mom. I still have to write the Halloween shindig, the kids getting nabbed, and the final battle.

Then, I think I'm done. I'm sure odds and ends will come up. Some, I might address in the rough draft. Some I'll probably wait to tackle in rewrite/revising.

I'd love to be able to start work on Gateway to Eternity by Monday. It already has almost 100,000 words on it, as I recall, so I can probably finish it up by the end of the month, too. The nice thing about it is that, even though it's the second book in this trilogy, it has a completely different texture, a different feel to it. Much more mystic and magical, which is what I need at this point in the trilogy, before cutting back to the final confrontation in the third book.

I'd really like to get these two finished before I tackle Xanali during NaNoWriMo. IF I manage to finish it in one month, like planned, I haven't decided what I'll do for December yet.

Part of me says to finish the third book in the series, while another part of me says I should move on to complete Yami No Tenshi, which is about half finished, and then Cataclysm, which hasn't much work done on it at all. Maybe 25,000 words.

Technically, since the three trilogies take place at the same time, but in different locations, with different characters and events, I probably should have written the first book in each series, then the second, and so on.

But...the words just kind of came out this way. Have to go with the flow, I guess.

Sheesh, I'm long-winded this morning. Good thing most of my progress reports are done at night when I'm too tired to "talk" for long...though it is nice to put the writerly ramblings down where I can see them.

Dawn of Destiny 1,062 words yesterday

140,062 total words to date yesterday