May's Writing Progress

I more or less closed the big gap in The Last Dragonrider, where I skipped ahead in the timeline. Then I identified most of the things I need to fix in editing in the second half of the book. Now I have to figure out the ending and write it. All that means I wrote "only" about 2,000 words of it this month, so the total is now 96,000 words.

I did manage to write a couple of short stories while trying to solve all the problems I've made for myself with this novel. One is an amusing (I hope) interpretation of the legend of St George and the dragon. (St George is the patron saint of England, even though he never set foot in the country, and we commemorate him on 23rd April. Purely by coincidence, I'm sure, that's also Shakespeare's birthday.) The other is a sci-fi-ish tale, very loosely inspired by the day job, which features a rubber chicken. That has the working title of The Gallus Protocol. (Look it up...)