I stopped calculating my per-day average because I’m actually in the home stretch, though it may not look like it. End of business today I cleared 66,000-plus words total on this ghost-writing project, and I only have one more chapter to go. That chapter will bring me to 70,000 or darn close to it.

Close enough to 70,000 to relax, that is.

Our author is dashing to Asia for a week, and I’d like to present him with the second half of the book before he leaves Thursday. That’s easily doable.

The reason I’m not worried about hitting 80,000 is that said author has already answered some queries on the first half of the MS, supplying 4,000 words I can quite reasonably use.

We are so there.

On February 6, we had zero words. Now we’re solidly at 74,000. If El Jefe’s adds to the whole MS are as copious as the first batch, we’ll probably have to cut words. See how that happens?

And do you see, James Patterson, why you should hire me? See contact page for further instructions.

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