I'm getting mildly annoyed by my word count, here.

I mean, yes, I know, my word goal is 3,000 words a week (6 pages) and I'm making that without too much trouble. It's just, before the holiday season (why in gods' name do we need an entire SEASON of holidays? Aren't they disruptive enough without turning the entire winter into a useless block?) I was busting out 2,000 - 4,000 words over goal and now I'm lucky if I can manage to get 300 words over goal.

I dunno. Maybe it's because the 7th Sea game is going really well. That's not a complaint, as I really am enjoying the game, but the moods of the two don't go together at all.

We'll see, I guess, if things start picking up in the next week or so. Kevin spent the last week working nights, which was tiring for me and exhausting for him, and now he's back on day shift. I expect him to be pretty dead this week, too, but hopefully it won't affect me so much.

Anyway:

Jan 24 - 1,355 words
Jan 27 - 724 words
Jan 29 - 810 words (end Cha 23)
Jan 29 - 414 words (begin Cha 24)

total: 3,303 words (303 over goal)

Total wordcount: 127,688 (255 pages)

I think I'm headed into the last bits here... I have (ish) 7 chapters left to write. which may or may not include the wrapping up - everyone lives mostly happily ever after for a while bits...

I'm sort of at a loss for that part, the happily ever after. I'm giving serious consideration to changing a plot detail (it's not very important, except that it'll affect the ending somewhat, so the question is, write the ending with the plot detail as is and change the ending when I change the detail? Or write the ending as if the detail was already changed and fix the detail first off on re-writes? Or, worst yet, go back and change the detail *now* so that when I write the ending, it makes sense... ug.)

I've been playing this novel a lot by ear, so to speak. I didn't ever write an outline for the events, and what's happening now isn't really how I envisioned things in the initial planning scenes... the results of this is that I have several secondary characters who came in for a scene or two and wandered off, never to be heard from again. I'm not certain what to do about this, either.

Massive.

Rewrites.

This sucks.