yo, party peoples!!

50K works out to roughly 175 pages. So a novella - or "part 1" of the next masterpiece of the century!

go team belly!!

I find that I tend to write very character driven stories, so when when one characer is running hot, I'll put the chater numbers and a really brief thought for the other threads in (Chapter 14 - Katie finally gets to Gipsland and meets Bob while putting up her tent (badly) and gets invited to Timbucktu; Chapter 15 - next bit about Beth ... still at work?) and then keep going with the red hot one.

And of course if the red hotness fades then I'll keep going with other characters.

If I get really stuck, I go to the end of the document, do a line of *** and then type more stuff ... back story, scene description, a future chapter which we haven't got to yet ... it all counts, because it's all going towards the book. It might get edited out later, but creating it and getting it onto the screen/page is King, and if you're doing that, it counts!

T-2 ... getting close, ladies!

Please consider it ... and kick me up the bum if I don't have 10K by the end of next weekend!