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19068 / 70000 words. 27% done!

Unfortunately, I am not 27% done according to the outline. Heck, I still have a few hundred words left to write on this chapter. (Though at least I get to write the book’s first gruesome, bloody death in those few hundred words.)

Now, there’s still plenty of time for it to balance out; later chapters could be shorter than I anticipated, just as this one’s been a lot longer. But if not, the book’s going to wind up longer than I’d planned for. Not a disaster–it was a pretty short book to start with–but it’ll throw my schedule off a bit.

As I’m sure many of you can imagine, ever since the diabetes diagnosis, I’ve been paying extra special attention to the nutritional information of the foods I buy. This is particularly true of convenience foods like protein shakes and snack bars, since many of them are diabetic-friendly and many of them… aren’t.

And I’ve noticed something. A lot of the brands have specially marked varieties for diabetics. "Diabetic" this and "glucose control" that. And you know what?

Very often–not always, but often–the "diabetic-friendly" variety has the exact same nutritional values and components as other low-carb varieties sold by the same brand, and yet they cost 20 to 25% more.

Let me say that again. They’re charging 20 to 25% more for something that said "diabetic" on the label, but is otherwise identical to other low-carb options.

So, to the brands/manufacturers in question, on behalf of not only diabetics, but anybody with a soul: Fuck you, you parasites. I don’t know if there’s a Hell, but if not, someone ought to invent one specially for you.

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.