Progress in the Shifting Sands

32,322 is today's count. Still 4k or so behind, but I've definitely popped over the hump in terms of a 50k novel. Backstory is moving forward. I added a pair of close friends to the group -- pretty late in the game for a true novel; I'll probably put them in earlier at my first rewrite -- but it's nice to have more than MC, spouse and peons at various altitudes and orbits. I can't wait for the spouse to die so the rest of the story can start.

What a horrible thing to say, but such is life in NaNoLand.

Cummulative word count is going well:
Eldest: 8,000+
Middle: almost 18,000
Youngling: over 1,000
That's around 60,000 words for the family -- and we're only on the 11th of the month!