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Saturday, November 17, 2018

NaNoWriMo 2018: the Midpoint

I'm at about 37K words, just past the halfway mark in terms of time. I know where the story is going and I have a clear path to victory. I'll be glad when I've finished dumping Meet Muriel into the computer and have the month of December to achieve a necessary emotional distance from the work. January will bring some intense rewriting. I know that already, given the multiple plot threads I've established during the dumping process. Lots of tune up needed, but this story deserves it. A lot more character development in this one, but maybe still plot driven, which is okay by me.

The trilogy is complete! Invasive Species is done!

It took way longer than I expected to gather feedback from my editors and beta readers, but I finally assembled their pushbacks, corrections and complaints. My rewrite/editing satisfied the ones that made sense and yet left the story the way I wanted to tell it, only better. Invasive Species: Food Chain joins it's brothers at Amazon in both paperback and Kindle ebook formats.