I was away with the family a couple of weeks ago. My wife is a teacher, and my daughter is still at school, so that was the October half-term week, and we took the opportunity to see our son, who is now living four hours away at university.
He doesn’t get a half-term break, so we didn’t see him as much as we’d have liked, but he’s in one of the most beautiful parts of the country, and we were able to walk along the stunning South Wales coastline. Just spectacular. I’d argue it’s one of Britain’s best-kept secrets, and not enough people outside of South Wales know how beautiful it is.
Anyway, I was able to publish three WIP chapters of A Healing Love to Ream because I queued them up beforehand, and another two went up last week, so that’s a positive.
Another positive is that I could do a fair bit of work on the manuscript in the evenings while we were away, and I managed to complete chapter 23 and push the word count up to over 100,000, making it my third-longest manuscript thus far. I suspect it will soon surpass A Wounded Heart into second place, but I don’t know if it will overtake A Tortured Soul or not to become the longest. That would take another twenty thousand words, which at the current average chapter length is about four or five chapters. That’s certainly a possibility.