Total word count, ESTC: 20,638
Total words today: 1,028

20,638 / 50,000 (41.3%)

I dawdled today, knowing full well that I only had to hit 1400 words this week to be on schedule. I’m about two hundred words under my (actual) daily quota, and don’t really care, ha ha! (This is good for me, and a nice change from stressing.)

All today’s words constitute the draft of a single ritual. I have got to move to the final two chapters, because everything else (except chapter 2, the ubiquitous history/cultural chapter; I am formulaic and predictable) now exists in a moderately substantial draft form. And I’m almost half-done. When it’s all there in draft form, then I can polish and rewrite and round it out.