Ta da! Halfway through the month, I’m halfway through the goal of 50,000 words in 30 days. I typed in word 25,002 at 11:36 Saturday night. A very short excerpt from my story, The Myrtle of Venus, is at this link.

I should add that the 25,002 words I’ve written are not consecutive. I’ve got an outline and a series of scenes, and I’ve been “fleshing out” the prose in these scenes as I come up with ideas on how to do such. This often means I’ll write a passage for a certain character, then hop to another scene that same character’s in and either “plant” a new plot point I’ll refer to later in the story or flash forward to a subsequent bit of that character’s action.