I’ve spent weeks getting ready for visits and visiting with family. Those were weeks where my only writing consisted of working on blog posts and doing a few critiques. And it’s true that I did fit in writing one short story. Now I need to get back to the serious business of writing novels.

Unleashed for Murder is at 31,000 words of an intended 75,000, or just under halfway. I’m working on reading through what I’ve written to refresh my memory. That should let me roll into the second half with some momentum.

I’ve made a few edits as I go through, but so far, the structure is holding up. I can’t say I know how it will all resolve. I rarely know exactly how any story I write is going to work out at the halfway point. I have a few ideas about what’s going to happen next. Maybe I know who the murderer is. I have a suspect. But I won’t be surprised if that’s wrong.

More than once in the writing of a story I’ve found that the person I thought would be the villain turned out not to be. That’s one of the things that keeps me writing. And I hope that it makes the story more exciting for readers, too. We’re both eager to get answers.