Here's how you do it, folks

[El Gordo]

At the end of 2011, I decided -- this is it. I will finish that book. So I took out the 35,000 words I'd written with the intention of doing a full re-write, aiming to finish up with something over 60,000 -- which I reckoned should be my minimum.

And so I did my full, thorough rewrite. In fact, I finished it only a few weeks ago. Result? Um, I now less than half the words I started out with.

Mind you, I have only got to the end of December 2001, or 3 weeks into the first marathon campaign. I will press on.

But interesting to read about 'Lazy Girl'. Thanks.