Nose to the Grindstone

Good progress the past two days, after a total flop on Wednesday (ambushed by other stuff, zero words on the book.) 

2300 words today so far, and nicely over 123,000 for the book...and I'm intrigued enough by the scene I'm working on to keep going this afternoon.  124,000 by day's end is possible, though I'm not inclined to push too hard.

If this were one of my SF novels, I'd be at, or very near, the end, with the finish post clearly in sight, ready for the home-stretch sprint.  This being one of