Progress! To! Report!

We’ve cracked the 40 kiloword barrier on the current work in progress. That works out to about 150 pages.

It’s taken some late nights, but we’re continuing to make headway despite weeks like this one when there seems to be some time-consuming obligation to tend to every evening. Evenings and weekends are our writing time, so when they get yanked out from under us it can have a big impact. Jen would like us to be farther along, of course, but even she is pleased with both the quantity and the quality of our recent output.

The part of the book we’re currently writing doesn’t lend itself to being prosed in parallel, so we’re tag-teaming it. Kent writes a scene, then hands things off to Jen for the next one, and then back to Kent. Whoever’s turn it isn’t, meanwhile, doesn’t get to slack off. Nay, time in the Writing Cave is too precious, so that partner revisits the already completed scenes and takes care of comments that we left for ourselves. Or, does research, or writes a blog post. Or keeps the stub stockpile built up.

There’s so much going on! Even the Bandit Lord is tired.