80K!

The 80K landmark used to mean more to me. It still means "real book" in a way lower numbers don't; it's hard to sell an adult book that's less than eighty thousand words long. But it used to mean I was well over halfway done with the novel, maybe seventy or eighty percent of the way there.

And then I started writing Onyx Court books. <sigh>

On the bright side, I'm close enough to the end of Part Two that I can taste it. Barring disaster, I'll be done by the end of the month (which is the goa...