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Just past 150K words on Nuevo Mexico, book three of the Seneca Series. Maybe another 10K or 15K words before I can bring 'er in.

I reckon I finally have a handle on why these books seem to grow beyond my expectations. I think it's because I write purely for the pleasure of it, and I just hate letting go of story lines.

The only thing that allowed me to end the Arenoso Trails Series was that the story line was bumping up against the Twentieth Century and I wanted to write about the Wild West.

However, the Seneca Series still has plenty of Wild West left in it. We'll see. But I'll post these three books as soon as Nuevo Mexico is finished.

Still plugging away on book three of the Seneca Series. And listening to Andy Williams sing Begin the Beguine. Anyway, I'm at 121K words and think there may be another twenty or thirty K to write before I can corral this doggie.

What bothers me is that there will still be story left to write even then. But no, maybe another time. I'm determined to keep this series a trilogy.

Like the Buddha said, you can't hurry a good thing. Bad things either.

When I decided to post these stories, I opened a new account just for that purpose. At some point early this year I ended up monitoring the Inbox from my original account rather than the new one. I dearly wish I knew how that happened.

I discovered that error today thanks to a Chrome account glitch which.... Do the details really matter? Shit happens and I have no inkling what causes it. Maybe it was the eclipse.

In any event, I discovered a bunch of personal messages starting from back in February. I've been checking the wrong (empty) Inbox two or three times a week for I don't know how long. *SIGH*

Be that as it may, I had to take a week off from the Seneca series to do a rough edit of my Art of Supervision manual in answer to a request. It needs a better scrubbing, but it's usable. Not really the kind of thing that one would post on SOL, though.

But for now, it's back to Nuevo Mexico.

Now at 86.7K words in the third book of the Seneca trilogy, working title Nuevo Mexico, probably to finish at around 125K words, at a guess.

To be honest, the notion of a fourth book has started to tingle in the back of my head, but I'm trying to suppress it. In any case, I intend to finish the trilogy come hell or high water, then publish them here. Any additional books would be add-ons, and probably in a different, though not wholly dissimilar, style. One of the purposes I have in writing is to try different approaches to the story-telling.

The rotator cuff has largely healed, or at least it's much less of a bother. My doctor informed me my pitching career was over, but he always did fancy himself a comedian.

Still slow going due to the rotator cuff injury, but that seems to be gradually healing, or at least becoming a bit less painful, week by week. Still, some wincing and beaucoup ibuprofen is involved.

Nonetheless, I crossed the 50K milestone today, on my way to about 120K words. Sneak preview: Elfego Baca's in this one.

Seasonal salutations!