June 18th Update

First and most importantly, Halls of Power is at just over 84,000 words. This is something of a surprise to me, as this past week was a rolling disaster.

I’m not going to go into the details, but the week started with a power outage just as I was going to start writing (I was using a laptop, so I got some writing done, but it distracted me). Things were just weird through the week, and for my wife’s birthday we went out, which was another distraction, though a pleasant one. As if there hadn’t...