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Smoothie Song - Nickel Creek

Normally I use a lyric to title posts, but this is a lovely bluegrass instrumental that puts me in a happy mood. And it's a good time to be happy, because I went over 50,000 words in tonight. If this was November, I'd be crowing about hitting the mark for a 6th year running, but it's July and this is my untimed summer novel. It might have been another Centum Dies Libri like Deep Six was, but I started on March 23, and it's been 106 days and counting, so I'm off that pace by quite a bit. On the other hand, I'm very happy with the progress I am making. In the hour-by-hour format of each chapter, I've covered from 8 AM to 8 PM. In the 9:00 hour, the power goes out, and from that point forward many things change for my characters over the course of a very long night punctuated by love and loss, death and destruction, friends and fire, victims and violence, and all the alliteration you could allow.

It's going to be a fun ride to the end.