"My view down the gutter is FAR too clear without you around to block it ahead of me! Come back!"

Word count: 3,158.
Scenes: 1, but it was a doozy. Probably botched it. BUT IT"S DONE.

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You maybe have noticed a slight note of celebration in that last sentence. This would be because it marks the end of a painful, agonizing story arc that I've been working on since April. 72,526 words to cover three hours of time, which brings the novel plot I complicated to make sure it'd last through Nano to 226,204 words.

That's right, two hundred and twenty six thousand, two hundred and four words. So far.

Clearly estimating word count is not my strong point. I'm not sure what it IS, but word count estimation does NOT make the short list. But in jolly news, we find that I have only to cover an outline-line a day to make my goal for GOOD. And the last two lines turned into nine scenes, with three new named characters and a plot twist.

Maybe I shouldn't have taken the afternoon off.