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Hubris – that is, the first draft of Hubris – is complete.  90,000 words have brought me to the most wonderful words to write in all writingdom: The End.  That wordcount, incidentally, makes this book the longest piece of writing I’ve ever done.  That’s not interesting to anyone but me, but welcome to the blogosphere.

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I’ve abandoned my 1000-word-a-day goal, but that’s a good thing. Now I’m sprinting for the finish line. In the last three days I’ve written something like 5,000 words and I’m almost to the big climactic climax of the story. There’s a lot that goes on in the end of this book; it [...]

I just passed the 200 page mark yesterday. It’s a good feeling, but it’s not as exciting as passing 100 pages or 50,000 words. And nothing is as exciting as getting to the last page and typing the wondrous words “The End.”

This has been pretty consistent for me through the writing of all [...]

I just hit the 45,000-word mark, which puts me halfway toward my anticipated total length of 90,000 words. Or I should say initially anticipated; I really feel like I’m more than halfway through the book at this point. I just started a big, multi-chapter scene that forms the end of my more-or-less second act, and after [...]