THE NEWEST MILESTONE. . .

I just spell-checked and printed chapter 11.

I now have 126 pages of completed manuscript.

This means I'm more than halfway through the first draft which, at the outside, I expect to come in at about 220 pages.

I'M AT THE HALFWAY POINT!!

I'm most of the way through the rising action and hurtling toward the climax.

And if you've ever hurtled toward a climax, you know exciting that can be.

Disclaimer: The management apologizes for that cheap and tasteless, and thoroughly politically incorrect, reference--despite how it made me giggle like a little girl to write it.