End of an era
Well the final tally for the story was 107,810 words...

It's been a long road to try to put into prose, everything that rattled around upstairs...

A brief timeline:

1) Spring 2000 - finished first draft of first novel
2) Summer 2000 - developed very general concept of story
2.5) Begun ongoing process of research for the story (microfiche, internet and 15 or so books later)
3) November 6, 2000 - wrote first page (handwritten)
4) Spring 2002 - finished first chapter or so
5) Winter 2002 - outlined on a matchbook the following chapters
6) Summer 2003 - approached the fourth chapter
7) Summer 2004 - rounded the corner to the sixth chapter
8) Fall 2004 - finished the eighth chapter
9) April 12, 2005 - finished the last chapter

So the first draft of the second novel is done... I need to go back and type the first, but time to press ahead with everything else that's spinning around me.

One less thing to do!

yay me

Sincerely,
fjc
who was watching T-1000s on his InFocus 5000