It's been a while!

Haven't entered anything to this blog in a dog's age. Largely because there's no one reading it, and also because I'm very, very lazy.
Since my last entry I've gone past 100,000 words!
The end is creeping closer - or at least the end of the beginning is getting closer. There's still the whole ghastly business of the proof-reading and the rewrites to go through.
My plan is that once I finish, I'll take a month off and use that time to start planning out the next story in my list. Or doing some short stories. Depends how I feel. Then, once the month is over and I've put some distance between myself and the story, I'll start on the fixing.

I've found that as you write a story, become involved in it, wrapped up in it, you get too caught up in it. To use a nice, trite cliche, you can't see the wood for the trees. It's important to step back once in a while, try and get some perspective on things. Plus, if you don't take a break you can get thoroughly sick of the story and the characters you're writing about.
I do anyway. Perhaps I'm just strange.