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Another milestone! Even though I was exhausted and crabby - I hunkered down and wrote the 1000 words I needed to get me to 40,011! Yeah. The halfway point! I am so proud of myself. I am on pace to get to 80,000 and a complete 1st draft of the novel by March 15. That is the goal anyway.

I am reasonable happy with how the story is shaping up and it is a good story. So now I have to just stay focused and get it to the home stretch!

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Tonight I ended up at 38,050 and 75 pages. Not bad. I rounded out a tough scene and see a clear direction for the next chapters. I have a rough outline but of late the story has been leading me.

Hopefully tomorrow or Thursday I can crack 40,000 and that would put me at the half way point or nearly so! My goal is to have the draft be about 80,000 words - leaving me room to add as I revise.

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another 1000 words tonight. So I am at 36,794. Total of 72 pages. Last week I got busy with life and E is not sleeping well at night and well it took most my mental focus to knock out the last MBA paper.

I have high hopes for this week... 40K here I come.

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So last night was a bust - but this afternoon after a lovely lunch of India... I managed

about 1800 words or so and a few quick edits...

I am at 35,783 and 70 single spaced pages. The flow is good and I would keep going but I have to be somewhere... maybe more tonight!

I think my goal of 40,000 words for the week is doable if I can keep this pace!

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34,003 words as of tonight. 66 single space pages.

I made decent progress this week and aim to try and be at 40,000 by this time next week.

Big progress in terms of the development of the story and moving it along...

All and all I am happy with where I am and I am tired tonight in any event, so I am done. I know when to say when.

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Well I worked on it tonight... after the MBA paper and the 2 proposals I wrote. I am going to finish another unrelated short story now - but I promised progress updates so here it is:

previously written	28914	55
newly written	2010	4
total	30792	59

I am single spacing the pages. I like the way it looks as I write. I will reformat when I ask people to read it. My goal was 2000 words night and I met it. I could push more, but I am at a good place to stop. This is a very important part of the book.

I am happy with where I am heading. I have not outlined this one. It is in my head and I am letting it flow out of me organically.