17,450 Words . . .

. . . which means I'm about 25 percent done since most sources indicate a novel should be around 70,000 to 100,000 words. I doubt I will hit the upper end of the range.

When I was younger I would stop, edit, write, stop, edit, write. Now that I'm older I have adopted the attitude to just push on through with minor editing on the way. My editors Sarah and Lynn will rip it apart once they get their nails into it anyway.

My suggestion to anyone else going through this process is to do the same and get the story and the characters on paper first, then go back in and make improvements.