vaneramos | Word count: 46,654

I have quit writing for tonight with another 3,346 words to go tomorrow in order to reach the goal for NaNoWriMo. That's about three hours of work after I get home to Guelph. It shouldn't be difficult because I've reached a major crisis in the plot, so the story should carry itself along fairly easily. Just as long as my life remains crisis-free for the next 24 hours.

The novel will not be complete however. I will probably need another 20,000 words to finish, and that's a conservative estimate. I plan to continue working on it four days a week, about two hours a day, which should work out to another 10,000 words per week. Hopefully I can finish this first draft before my daughters start Christmas holidays. In Janury I plan to do some revisions.

This time I don't have any serious obstacles preventing me from polishing off Pilgrim's Cross, the way I did last year with Tendril Through Cyberspace. Tendril posed major technological and sociological questions I don't know how to answer, and will require extensive research if I am ever to complete it to my satisfaction. P.C. holds together much better. I see a few problems, but expect to be able to fix them by rewriting certain passages. I would like to see this novel published.