With the maps out of the way, it was time to tackle Book III's text again...and past time to put all the fragments into one big file and see where I was. Not surprisingly, the LifeStuff in January, February, and March--with another batch of it in the last half of May and early June--and then the longer-than-expected struggle with the maps--has knocked me off my original schedule. However, it's not as bad as it could be, and as long as I get back on, and stick on, the daily wordage requirements, I'll be fine. I've used up my wiggle-room allotment, so it's definitely nose to the grindstone (not that it hasn't been there every time it wasn't on a different grindstone, but still...
Yesterday, in addition to the work on the maps and the combining of fragments (which always takes longer than seems reasonable, but I use a safe method that assures the fragments are still there in case the "join" doesn't work right) I still managed 1000 new words. The difficulty is weaning myself off online venues where it's much easier to write than on the book...so it's back to stricter rules. Fifteen minutes of "play" every two hours until the day's words are in the tank. (And--oops--it's time to flee to the text again.)
