November's Writing Progress

I've continued editing Stone & Silence. It's now 128,000 words, and I have 198 comments still to consider. My critique group are about halfway through reading it, so I expect the number of comments to increase before it eventually drops to zero. For the last couple of chapters, they've grumbled about how much I'm waffling, which I tend to do when I'm in the middle of a book.

I recorded some more of the audiobook of Death & Magic, and I'm now up to chapter 32, which is about 69% of the way through. So far it amounts to 33 hours and 30 minutes of raw material. The latest weird noise that I'll have to cut out was an engineering train that (as far as I can tell) rebalances the ballast under the track. It stops moving, sticks some big pincers into the ballast, scrunches it up, pulls them out, then moves forward about three feet and does all that again. As you can probably imagine, it took quite a while to travel far enough that I couldn't hear it...