Yeah. I'm that annoying energizer bunny. I'm fixing up chapter 13 now. Had two cool things happen. I have 80K and a bit which is where I wanted to be by now. Turns out one of my characters is an oncologist. I knew he had a secret. So, by Friday, I hope to have fixed up the rest of 13 on through 26 or so. I think I have to call the project done by the 30th (in terms of the MA) so I can work on formatting it etc. Well, we'll see. I actually have no idea where things will stand by Friday. Wherever, I guess.

Usually, I've done a lot more read throughs than I have on this one so far. My changes have been so big, there's been no point. Many of my chapters are too long. I've chopped a few in half, but long chapters, for me, are an indication of a pacing problem. I still haven't written the last chapter. I definitely have to get around to that.

I didn't get quite as much done as I'd hoped because my son has a science project due Thursday and he has been procrastinating despite my nagging because he's just positive nothing will go wrong. He's doing a paper airplane flight test thing. Anyway this morning I had to deal with several tearful episodes as imagination hit reality. He was upset because he didn't like his data. Explanation about scientific process and not imposing one's expectations and hopes onto method in order to achieve the desired data.

Interesting observation: the tween brain appears to shut down when a parent starts talking about school work and the Right Way To Do Things. Just noticing, that's all. Eventually, he went off to fly paper airplanes and measure the distance traveled. Later, there was a mess in the living room. How, he wanted to know, was he supposed to clean up ALL those models that didn't work out? His brain shut off again, but it didn't get him out of cleaning up.

Ok, it's late. I'm off to bed.

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