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Today is a tad busy. I've sorted out some glitches in my novel and intend to spend the day sorting out more (plus some editing has come up). The novel is at the length where everything has to pull together and make sense, which is why 'sorting out glitches' equals writing. In a perfect world, it will be 90,000 words long by today or tomorrow and I'll finally have made my choices between my possible conclusions. I don't know how it happened, but someone I've done a Fowles and have several equally viable conclusions. I don't want it to be that sort of novel, though. Choices are inevitable. It's nice to know that for the first 200 pages, however, any of these things are perfectly possible.

I'm still madly reading for the Aurealis. Two more books and then I'm done until the post brings more. We're nearing the end, even though the closing date for entries is still a few weeks away. It's been a lot of fun. Once I finish these two books, I should hopefully have heard from my supervisor and will be in that dissertation mode I mentioned the other day. This is why it's so important for the novel to reach 90,000 words and the Aurealis reading to be done.

None of this is very exciting for the rest of the world, but it's great from within myself. I really do have a low boredom threshold.

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If I write the same amount tomorrow as today, I shall reach my goal with my novel for the weekend. I've already finished my Aurealis reading - if anyone wants me to read more, they will have to send me books! This means that tonight has that set of edits and it has reducing one more pile of work to rubble and that's all it has. And tomorrow afternoon I get some time off for good behaviour.

Thank you Nicole, for hosting the very handy write-a-thon!

One odd thing - I can't think half in Old French in someone else's house. This means that some of dialogue from today may have to be revised.