perhaps i've got too many projects on the go. here's the current list:

• The Winter Road: 6700 words, unfinished, nearly there, just needs stitching together.
• The Fashion: 1000 words, working backwards from the end.
• Cold Snap: 200 words, just off the starting blocks.
• Malessar's Curse: 50000 words, going nowhere fast.
• Wings of Steel: 1200 words, pulling teeth.

and those are just the ones i have to hand. perhaps, like debts, i should focus on them one at a time. but i seem incapable of working...

the little Excel file i update every few days when i feed in the wordcount for the various chapters of Malessar's Curse has just given me a rather amazing number.

50000 words.

crikey. that's a lot of writing. i have to wonder what %age of that figure is actually any cop. and there's a lot to think about too - if this is 50k, how far will i be by 100k? what size will "finished" be? should i actually have a target at all, or just keep on keeping on?
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