This poor blog is being neglected. I have so many other things to do, and I’m writing my novel. I am currently at 23,114 words. I’m a little behind what I had been writing (2,000 words a day, which would mean I should be at 26,000). I have an idea where the novel is going. At around 35K to 40K words, one of my characters has to die. It’s not interesting otherwise, and the other characters need something tragic to deal with. I have to devise a secret to be revealed once that character dies. I have no idea what that will be though. I have introduced all my characters, and I now have a total of seven people and two dogs. The dogs are characters too, although minor. There are two main characters, but the others may rise in importance as the novel progresses. Tragedies have a way of bringing out minor players.