April 7th – 304,559 words.

Well, I managed to get 3,184 words written today, which given my cold is a lot worse was no small achievement, so excuse the self-congratulatory tone today. Mind you, I couldn’t maintain the speed of the last four days, and had to break for lunch, meaning I probably took closer to two hours today rather than the less than an hour and a half I’ve been hitting.

The story is shaping up nicely, but I am even more convinced this is going to end up as a trilogy rather than a single book, or even the pair I thought it would when I started this second one. I’m over a third of the way in and nowhere near the eventual resolution of the main plot – I guess I’ll just have to keep going and see where it goes. Having said that, I am pretty sure where the black moment will come in this story and the temporary resolution/ cliff hanger on which to end this particular volume.

This is of course going to give me a lot of problems with the title, I had a great title for the first book, and a good one for a final book, which is what I’m using at the moment, but no real idea what to use as a title for this second book if indeed I do extend it to make a trilogy. Covers will also be an issue, that’s going to have to be very carefully worked out. Still, compared to not writing at all, these are good problems to have.