May 12th, 2010 by Neal

I’m very tired, but work progresses. The book is at almost 98,000 words, and will probably top out at 100K ish.

I’m doing about thirty pages a day, which puts me at completion at roughly the end of next week or the beginning of the following week, but either way, I should be done by the end of May. Then I’m gonna take a well-earned bloody break for a few.

Today I had a strange scene where I went into a 7-11 and saw the clerk being accosted. I was in perfect position to utterly ruin the day of the potential assailant, but he decided to leave. Had he taken a swipe at the clerk, I would have taken him down. It was literally a hair away from a really crazy scene. Instead he left, and now I have gummy worms and half a day of work.

In another universe, though, I karate chopped a bum today.

Sigh.