Chapter 30 Now Online

Ever since Chapter 27, I've had a nice outline written that reminds me of everything I need/want to cover in every chapter until Chapter 40 - where I've got the cliffhanger planned, and that is when I will stop publishing online. It's been a great tool to keep me on track, and I can read the notes I've written for each chapter, and then take time writing it in my head before I ever sit down at a computer.

So, last weekend, I began kicking out Chapter 30. I wrote a good 2,000+ words one day, and was really happy with it all, even though I only covered half of the things I wanted to cover in the chapter. So, I told myself, I'll finish this in the next few days, and it will just be a really long chapter. (Most chapters in the novel run about 2,000-ish words, the longest being a litle over 3,000-ish). Well, tonight when I finally sat down to force myself to finish Chapter 30, I just decided - "I'm going to end it here, and shift everything a bit". It was a good place to end it. The action was at the end of a night, and is getting ready to move into the next day, so I just decided to write off a couple more paragraphs to close it up and get back to the alternate timeline with Chapter 31. Then, when I get back to Chapter 32, it should be a quick write - since I've been thinking about it all week. So, I'm going to shift a few things around in these last chapters, but it shouldn't make too much of a difference.

HERE IS CHAPTER 30.

I am sure that in the future, the page formatting and/or font and/or something else will be changed, but in its current format I have hit 200 pages. And, once I write Chapter 31, I should easily be over 70,000 words.

Now, I'm going to get going on Chapter 31.