Well, I chained myself to the computer this weekend and breezed right past my 10k word-count goal for the first week of October. As of right now, I’ve put down 11,970 words on the first draft of The Curse of Steel since Tuesday.

Meanwhile, real life has been building up a head of steam, so it’s just as well that I’m ahead of my goal. This week at the office, I have a pile of work to do and deadlines to meet, so my writing pace is likely to slow down dramatically over the next few days.

Still, there are now nineteen chapters posted over on Chapterbuzz, and the story is rapidly approaching its mid-point. Every day I’m more confident that this will eventually be my first published novel-length original work. About time I broke that creative barrier!