Update on Progress; Where Have I Been?

Oh, dear, it has been a long time, hasn't it?

The truth is that I've simply been very busy. I don't have many readers to my blog, so I shifted my priorities. Why? Because I needed to focus on my story!

I've had other private things going on to deal with as well, such as a car accident that totaled my car and subsequently wrangling a new car; it happens to be a Toyota. If you have seen the news lately you know how these things are working out for me in general...

At any rate, the first draft was finished, and currently is having a first-pass to clean it up. Right now the manuscript, which started at 112,240 words, is now at 108,481 words, for a cut of 3,759 words, and I'm still in the first half of the document.

As I hack and slash and reword I then divvy up some of the work I've reviewed to English-major wife, who in turn hacks and slashes and rewords and sends it back to me to re-integrate to the manuscript.

So I haven't disappeared. I'm simply keeping busy doing what I should be doing. Writing!