I've got over 20 chapters in the rough draft of this story now, so you might think I'm close to wrapping this one up. However, I think I've actually added more chapters to the outline than what I've completed since last I posted about how writing was going.
I've decided to give myself a hard cap of 30 chapters. If I think of some idea that inspires me and would push the story past that limit, I just need to save it up for another story. If I had to guess, I'd say this one is going to end up in the 40k word neighborhood. That would make this one longer than any completed stories I've written other than Predatory Mothers and Boobiliscious.
I'm a little bit delayed in getting Chapter 9 polished up and posted because I went to a concert Thursday night and also because I realized I had made a mess over who the point of view character was in one scene.