P. B.

Today, I just broke the 26,000 word mark, making this the longest story I've ever written. And it's nowhere near done.

To my calculations, I've written about 48% of the overall plot (which then means I'm halfway near done, but don't worry — pft!) which is both good and bad. Bad because that means I'm could be looking at a word-count of about 60,000 when done, when I actually want 80,000, but good because I'm actually getting this done. I thought I'd be giving up at some point, but I'm enjoying writing the story, which should mean you'll enjoy reading it. At least, I hope so.

But the important thing here is to not stretch it out so that it fits 80,000 words; the story is always as long as it needs to be. If I finish at 60,000 or less, then that means it's a solid story that isn't dragged out, but I'll know that for my next story, I'll need to add a few more plot points.

Unless I finish at 100,000 words, which would be a wonderful bonus.

I am confident that I'll be able to make this average-book-length, though, so I'm gonna' keep at it.

Also, I've just realised that during the time I should be revising for those important GCSE thingies, I've been writing ... ah, I'll revise a bit later ...