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So I just did a guest blog/author introduction on Joshua Palmatier’s blog, discussing the links between fantasy and horror. Click on over, and let me know what you think.

Many thanks to Joshua for the opportunity. 🙂

96960 / 95000 words. 102% done!

And that’s it, folks. Zero draft of the Work in Progress is complete.  😎 And despite all my worries, it’s a hair over target word count, while still well enough within the target range to allow for either additions or deletions in editing/rewrites.

Time for some serious celebration. By which I mean a little junk food and a nap. I’m a real wild child.

How, exactly, did I manage to screw up my ankle on a damn in-home pedal exerciser?! That’s like cutting yourself on a freaking pretzel!

Oh, wait. I’ve done that. 😕  (Drew blood and everything, and yes, I have witnesses.)

Still shouldn’t have happened, damn it. It’s not like 20 minutes on a pedal exerciser is precisely an intense, injury-prone workout. 😛

72339 / 95000 words. 76% done!

I’m pretty much precisely on course here. Twelve out of sixteen chapters is 75%, and I’ve got 76% by word count.

Which would be great, if I didn’t have a number of short chapters ahead of me. I was actually hoping to be ahead on word count by now. 😳

Well, we’ll see. Not like it’s a disaster if I don’t come in precisely where I wanted, long as it’s not too far off…

Codex of Betrayal: Geryon, the Broken Beast (in Dungeon #176) was published by Wizards of the Coast for Dungeons & Dragons 4E as electronic material in the D&D Insider.

Credits: Sole author

76837 / 95000 words. 81% done!

Thirteen chapters down, with… Well, see the subject line.

It’s a short chapter–shortest in the book, in fact. As to whether that proves a problem, guess we’ll see what the next chapters look like.