So, for those of you who were wondering, yes I've cleared the writathon cutoff of 55,555 words. By significantly more than the cutoff, actually. This marks the end of what I was originally calling part 2 of a series of novellas, but which, after I've continued to write in the series, I have instead decided to simply call the halfway point of book 1. It's also where I started writing on Nov 1 2024.

Presently, book 1 is 152,738 words long. With a starting point of 88k words, that means that when I finished writing book 1 a week ago, I'd already won the writathon at about 65k words. I've written another 37,657 words in book 2.

In other words, I've written about 102k words since Nov 1. So yeah, although we're just getting into the new stuff, I'm officially declaring victory.

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For those of you who are impatient to view the rest of the story, I would direct you to my patreon, where you can either purchase the completed novel as an .epub or subscribe and get it for free, your choice.

Chapters will be once per day for the at least the next sixty days or so, unless I get distracted by something and need to slow down writing, in which case I'll bump it down to twice a week like my other stories. Either way I have enough backlog for the next two months+

I hope you have enjoyed the story, and I'd love to hear from you in the comment section! I'd also appreciate a review if you have the time.

Also, I just want to say, I'm especially proud of the finale of book 1.