Current count is 18,644 words on the novel. That’s an important number, because it’s more than I managed on any of the three failed attempts surrounding my nanowrimo-winning 2003 effort, Johnny Pseudonym and the Noms de Plume.

The implication being that there is some mystical elastic barrier in the region of fifteen to sixteen thousand words which grasps at a November novel-in-progress and pulls and pulls until the novel either falls gasping into the pits of failure or breaks through the membrane to surge mightily on toward the now-inevitable 50K goal.

I will be running with this implication.

**Cake is your go-to band for lexico-centric lyrical excerpts.