67%

It’s actually 66.666666%, but I rounded up to 67%. That’s how far along I am in writing the new book, second in the series I started this year. How do I know the book is 67% complete? Because my goal is 75,000 words and yesterday I made it to 50,000. That’s 50 divided by 75, making 67%. Which brings up a different issue. In recent chapters, I’ve had a couple of characters see a common obstacle from different perspectives, but haven’t yet told what that obstacle is. And now I’m to the point where not only do I have to divulge the obstacle, but it has to live up to the dread I had the characters experience. Some people might refer to this method as “writing yourself into a corner.” I prefer to think of it as a challenge. It reminds me of a comic book series from DC back in the 1980s, a 12-issue limited series if I remember correctly. And titled, appropriately enough, DC Challenge. A different writer would be responsible for each issue, and the short of it was that they would try to screw over the next writer in the series with an impossible-to-resolve cliffhanger. I only remember the concept and not so much the story itself. I do remember that it was fun and made an impression on me. I haven’t written myself into a situation nearly that bad, but it’s time to get to work. I need to fire up the ol’ imagination and have some fun.