Wrote 11 pages of Book 8 of "The Demonata", which took me all the way up to the end! But I'm not QUITE finished with the first draft yet -- I have to edit the last 8 or so pages tomorrow. Once I've done that, the first draft will be officially in the bag, and I can move on to the editing of Book 3, and the planning of books 9 and 10. (At the moment, I don't really know what's going to happen in those books! I know how #10 finishes - even the last line - and I have snippets in my mind which I want to include in book 9, little scenes and bit of action and info. But I don't know what the actual story-lines are going to be, how I'm going to flesh them out and make them fast-paced and interesting. But I'm sure they'll fall into place over the next few months ... I hope!!!!!)

I was especially pleased to write 11 pages today because it would have been very easy to get distracted. A piece of art which I bought some months back, but had to have cleaned and re-framed, arrived yesterday, and I had people in hanging it and hooking it up to my alarm system today. I had to help them out on some of it, and could have used the break-up of my normal writing pattern as an excuse to flack off. But I forced myself to sit and write, and I got the book "finished", so I'm delighted with myself!!!!

I'm about halfway through the first series of "Angel", and I have to say it's definitely picked up after a weak start. I'm still not enjoying it as much as "Buffy", but I like how it's growing, and if the improvement continues I'll certainly take a chance on the second series.