I got in about 1000 words on chapter 8 last night. If I get even a little bit of writing time tonight I should go over 50,000 words. About 1/4 of the way there now.

1000 words in I can see that chapter 8 will probably actually be 8 and 9. There's just too many things to stuff in there and I expect to go through a lot of words doing the heist.

A paltry 600 words or so last night. But I didn't have much time to work on it, about 50 minutes. I thought of some good tweaks while commuting though. A scene I decided to cut due to irrelevance I'm going to put back in and it will be quite relevant.

About 1200 words last night. I'm hoping to finish off the 8th chapter this weekend and maybe get a good start on the 9th. I got in my scene that will foreshadow something that will happen at the very end of the story. Tonight maybe I will get in a brand new scene I thought up that will add a little more action to chapter 8 and a bit of insight into a character that hasn't been really well developed yet. I'm feeling good about 8 so far.

Chapter 8 is done. My wife very nicely gave me some writing time so I got around 2400 words last night.

I finished chapter 9 this morning before everybody got going, but it is a short chapter. The chapter is only about 3,600 words. All together I'm standing at about 58,000 words now.

I think I should have time to start chapter 10 tonight. Chapter 10 should be interesting to write, even if it will probably be slow going. Lots of character interaction, a near fatal drug overdose, two characters sleeping with each other, characters alienating each other, and one character death.

About 600 pages tonight, but I got distracted by a long email from an old friend and, therefore, a long reply. I got another email from a friend who wanted some help with his computer. I only wrote for about 45 minutes. Hopefully more time tomorrow.

I've got three days off next week to deal with a variety of stuff, but even with the stuff I need to do there should some of the largest blocks of writing time I've had. My wife is totally on board since I'm making rapid progress.

I'm hoping to get done with chapter 10 by this weekend so I can blow through 11 and 12 during my days off. I'm very excited about 11 and 12 since everything changes in the story. There's another big event in 14, but I don't think I can get there during my days off.

You're doing great. I'm admiring your progress from afar.