I’m just about ready for this book to be done. I can tell because I’m outputting around 2000 words at a time now instead of the requisite minimum of 1000 words. Maybe this is making up for June, who knows? Here’s the stats.

Total Words Written in July: 17435.
Total Writing Days: 10
Average Words Per Day:  1,744
Total Words Written by the End of June: 64,511

And I would have written more if it hadn’t been for those meddling kids! Haha, no seriously, the last day I wrote in July was the 23rd. The last week of July I was faced with having to decide whether I was going back to Kansas to take a new position at my company or stay here in Washington.

I ultimately chose to stay in Washington, but not until I had agonized over the decision for a week. Which would be the week in which I did not write. Any sane person with the longing I have for Kansas would have gone back. But for some reason the people at the church I chose decided to grow on me, and I felt like I must stay here. For a few reasons, but mostly for them. Perhaps as recently as three months ago I would not have made the same decision.

Despite having only written for a third of the days of July, and for two days less than I wrote in June, I managed to output 4,000 more words than I had written in June. I think I’m over the mushy middle. I’ll be outputting at least 2,000 more words tonight once I finish with this blog post. And I fully expect to have the book done by the end of August, although I’m shooting for the third week. Wish me luck!

Life in General:  I’m feeling quite at peace with my decision to stay here, which is in itself quite a different position from where I was a month ago, when I wrote in this space that I was missing home.
Short Story: Synopsis still awaiting approval from the client.
Work: Doing my best to earn that raise in November!
Exercise: Cancelled my YMCA membership, but too late before it was drafted from my bank account for August. This makes me frustrated, especially since I seem to belong to the YMCA where the membership director is never available, which makes it hard to talk to her about a refund.
SW City and Active Worlds: Teh forum drama llamaz, it hurts! Entertaining, but also getting old on its third month in.
Voice Acting: Hey! I’m now the official VO guy for the EU Review! Check them out here!