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Current word count:
13,794 / 50,000

A new excerpt:

But that was Microsoft, past tense, and today Microsoft didn’t exist. A Google search had reduced their flagship product: Windows to the homepage of a disheveled man who shared Gates last name but bore no other similarities.

More on Rutger along with a couple of plot twists. A new character, who isn’t really that new (appeared earlier) has come onto the scene. I think maybe one more important character might be left, but that’s it. I hope so, as it’s page 77 and chapter 9 and it’s getting a bit late to introduce any new characters.

I’m still behind the pace, but I made up a little ground. This morning when the alarm clock went off at 4:30 I went back to sleep. Fortunately, I woke an hour later and came in and wrote for a good two hours. It seems like my routine is to write 1-2 hours per day, which has been enough to generate 2,000+ words a day. That puts me on pace for 52,000 words, assuming I take every Sunday off and write the other six days of the week for the rest of the month. Going to be close, but my guess is that as I close in on the ending of this story, my output will increase significantly. The toughest part of novel writing for me has been the middle — the guts — not the beginning or ending. And that’s where I’m going to be for the next couple weeks: the middle. The story is starting to come together and I can see where it’s going so I’m at least 80% confident that I won’t lose the story over the next 100 pages or so. I am interested to see where this new character is going to take the story (again, not really a new character, as this character had a scene that was memorable earlier in the novel).

Haven’t written any words in the evening or day time, only the early morning so far. Will be interesting to see if that holds true for the rest of the novel so far.