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Which is a little over a thousand words today. Of course, I hadn't worked on the novel in 17 days. To much school. To much work on Sharing Quarters. Still, that makes something like 9000 words in the last two weeks.

I just wish I'd actually made more progress story wise. I mean, yeah, the scenes I wrote needed to be written, but they're not vital, plot moving scenes. The next one is. It's a biggy. It's Barney's Super Tuesday speech. Big, big scene. It lays out the entire campaign.

Right now, I'm just feeling a bit like the thing is never going to be finished. I also still haven't decided quite what I want to do with a particular subplot. I may go back and cut it entirely, though I don't think so. I also have to come up with something that can give just a bit of momentum back to Chuck in order to precipitate certain events.

The long and short of it is, I've still got a bit of work to do to finish Homefront, and damn if I don't feel like I'm runninng out of steam.

Ugh. Maybe I can finish over Spring Break. I wanted to be finished before then so I could start on What Rough Beast, but no such luck.

Also, Barney Alamar scares me. When I write him, I always want to shower afterwards, and I always get a big old dose of the ""Where the hell did that come from" feeling. He just plain creeps me out. And he's going to get worse.

Oh, and I'm really liking the rewrites I did with Turner and Soloman. I think things are going to work out much better now in terms of where that plot line is going. Hell, the climax of that thread is one of my big candy scenes.

That, and there's a aerial combat scene I am going to absolutely adore writing. If I pull it off, it will be incredibly cool.

On the other hand, there is a certain scene I'm absolutely dreading. No way around it, it's going to be horrible to write. I kind of wonder if I'm stalling because I just don't want to do it.

Sometimes this whole writing thing is a lot less fun than it could be.