Just a little further...

88,000 words (well, near as dammit) - getting slowly closer. Did a bit more at work today. Whoever invented USB microdrives was a genius - perfect for the would be writer on the move who wants to take the novel he or she is working on with them!
Admittedly, I really should have been working, but what the hell, I'm leaving in a week!
Finding it increasingly hard to concentrate on the business of writing this novel. As well as the distractions of the telly, the PlayStation and the pub, I find I am becoming increasingly distracted by new ideas that keep ocurring to me.
For well over a year I've been working on the same novel. I'm tired of it, I want to finish and move on to something else. So when another idea occurs to me, one that is fresh and exciting and full of interesting new characters instead of the same ones I've been living with for however long it is (the ones I'm now heartily bored of), it is incredibly hard not to start working on this new story.
It's sooooo tempting, but I must resist! Then I can finish this story and begin the whole process again (ignoring the small matter of the essential rewrite of the first draft).
Speaking of new ideas, had a bizarre one the other day. Sci-fi or fantasy (with a smidge of horror perhaps) is my usual type of thing, so when the idea for a script for a romantic comedy occurred to me it came as quite a surprise. I may even write it one day, not that I have the faintest idea how to write a script, but what the hell...