Hey! Hello!
It's been a while since I've put anything down here. I thought it was time for a status report and I've had a pleasant surprise. My working copy consists of eight, 200 to 300 page notebooks. I have been working hard through book six and was expecting it would take another year before the story was all down on disk and/or in print form.
Last night I was on the last few pages of book six and I pulled out book seven in preparation of working straight into it. To my surprise I discovered that book seven is actually the LAST book. The story ends in book seven!
It turns out that book eight is just various rewrites and add ins plus a few epilogue suggestions. It looks like I could have this story closer to a finished version a lot sooner than I expected.
"Yeah!!!"
Now back to the laptop!!