I tried to use most of my wasted day at work writing, but it's going pretty slowly. Not sure why that is, I think I'm trying to get to the new and exciting part of the story and it feels (to me, anyway) like it's dragging a bit.

In other news, I've got some folks in an online writing group that I'm a part of, suggesting that my first book might be too long for the age group I'm going after. That, friends, has me worried. For those of you that have read Travis 1, I think the majority of y'all would agree that there isn't much that I can cut out. It clocks in at a meaty 80,000 words, but I'm being told it should be pared down to 35,000 or so.

Ugh.

So, of course, I've got that running in my head as I'm writing the sequel. Are these stories too long, or should I not worry about that so much and just get them out of my head and take care of it in the editing process. Decisions, decisions.

I'm struggling to make my two pages a day and I hope I'm not forcing it along...but it might just be that I'm at a slower point, you know...right before the really good stuff kicks in.

We'll see what the weekend holds.