Nose to the Grindstone

This weekend my wife and sons are heading off for a week's holiday with the in-laws, sans me as we decided it was better for me to save some leave for the end of the year. This means that, in between eating pizza and throwing my dirty underwear all over the floor, I'll be aiming to get some serious word-count happening on the latest draft of Tales of the Blue Jade book 3.
I've set myself a target of 20,000 words, a quarter of the book. It seems a heck of a lot, but I've broken it down to arou...