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This is only a test.

Had this been an actual blog entry, there would have been some content. Or, well, given my posting history, maybe not…

For the record? I hate season-ending cliffhangers. Hate them. With a burning passion that exceeds all rational limits. I don’t find them intriguing; I find them annoying and manipulative. I don’t mind waiting for a couple of weeks, if necessary, but a season? Not so much.

If I like a show, I’m going to keep watching. If I don’t like a show, I’m not. Never, not once, has finding out the end of a cliffhanger been responsible for me sticking with a show I wasn’t enjoying. I don’t know anyone who it has worked on. On the other hand, I have occasionally been driven away from a show by a season-ending cliffhanger that felt too manipulative.

So, TV producers? Cut it the hell out!

6464 / 70000 words. 9% done!

Given that I got zero work done during the day today (for numerous reasons that I don’t care to go into), and managed to crank out all of this in the past few hours, I think I can be fairly happy that I squeezed in a full day’s work. 😛

And within a couple hundred words of the end of Chapter One.

8495 / 70000 words. 12% done!

The chapter’s actually coming in a little longer than I expected, but this early in the book, I’m not prepared to guess what that means–if anything–for the overall length.

10479 / 70000 words. 15% done!

I’m actually a hair shy of my normal daily minimum. (I’m at 1,900 and change, rather than 2K or above.) But this is a really good place to stop, in as much as it’s a place that’ll be easy to pick up from. And since I’m not going to get to work this weekend, as I’ll be visiting with family, a spot from where it’s easy to pick up is fairly important.

Or, you know, I’ll decide that I’m just making excuses, and do some more work this evening. One or the other.

17014 / 70000 words. 24% done!

I assume it’s obvious that I’m titling these progress updates based on working days, not real days. You know, given that this is the 8th day, but it’s the 14th "real" day since my first installment.

Just in case there was any confusion. Which there probably wasn’t. But now there might be. Or something. I should stop typing now.