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Not getting started as early as I had hoped. But I think I’ve given myself enough time to get 2,000 words done by the time the boys arrive. Here’s hoping that the words are kind to me today. Starting word count is 98,904, goal for the day 102,904 or better.

I managed to get 2,170 words this morning before the boys showed up. But now I’m beat. I came up here to do some more writing, but I just can’t.

Final word count for the weekend, 8,304. Not a bad showing, a little more discipline on my part and I would have made it.

Word count for A Difficult Dinner at the end of the day, 101,074.

4,086 words done. That puts me ahead of schedule for the year. I’m at a good point to keep going, but I’m beat. I’ll pick it up again tomorrow. I’m out. Sleepy time.

Worked at it hard last night and put 2,048 new words down on the story. Thane and Demarco had there little chat about vampires and made it all the way into Ohio. Now Thane needs to come up with a plan to rescue Sherice. That’s the plan for today. Starting point for the day, 94,818 words. Goal 98,818 words or better.

Managed to get 2,012 words so far. Word count is up to 96,830. Going to take a couple hour break and then I’ll get back at it.

Two things. I realized that I forgot a big nugget that I was supposed to include in the Lucien/Cornell/Thane fight. Because of this forgotten bit and the general lack of punch that the fight has, I’m going to have to rewrite a large chunk of that scene. I didn’t want to do that last night because I wanted to push forward with the story.

Which brings us to number two. I’ve got Thane and Demarco in the car together, they’re supposed to talk about what Demarco was promised by the vampires and then Thane gives him the big, “why you don’t want to be a vampire” speech. The problem is that I went to write that sceen and couldn’t remember any of the stuff I’d wanted to touch on with the scene. I banged my head on the screen for three hours last night and didn’t get anything out of it. I’m going to let it stew in the pot that is my head all day and really bang it out tonight. I think Tasha is going out tonight, so I should have the house to myself. I’m hoping to get lots of words tonight.

I really need to crank the words this weekend. I’m going to get 2,000 today and 4,000 saturday and sunday. That means 10,000 new words by this time Monday and I’ll be over the 100,000 word mark. Wish me luck.

Well, I’ve used up both my days off for this week. Not that I really had any to spare. If I was going to finish A Difficult Dinner by the end of the month I really needed to do 2,000 words a day. Which I have not. Anyway, I wrote some words yesterday, 1,362 of them to be exact. Thane and Demarco are in the car headed back to Detroit. Lucien and Cornell are dead. It’s time for a heart to heart between the boys and somewhere along the ride home we’re going to have a little intervention from the colonial vampires, that’d be Cole and his folks. Things are winding up to the big finish.