Running Behind and Looking Ahead
I'm running behind. In my "entity" as M.A. Lee, my current mystery The Hazard of Secrets was supposed to be finished on the last day of June. Here it is 25 days later, and I'm still not finished. For HoS , I have 5 to 7 more chapters to write. My expected word count was 55,000. I am currently at 50,000-plus. When I look at the scenes that are necessary to finish the mystery and solve the crime and close the other threads, I think that word count is going to be closer to 70,000 than 65,000. Those extra words are part of the problem. However, the main problem is TIME.