I have downloaded what is quite possibly the most evil Firefox extension ever.

It sits in your statusbar and quitely ticks off your predicted word count on 30th November.

By the hour.

This morning, it was predicting I would manage a total of 35000 words. It's now down to 32700.

Bastard.

And the terrible thing is that I will get nothing done tonight and probably nothing done tomorrow as I have a business meeting that's taking up all my creative energy. I can see a marathon writeathon on the cards very soon if I'm to have a chance of getting anywhere near the 50,000 mark.

Get ready to pat me heartily on the back if my word count soars past 25000 this weekend.

I've been working on my plot options. I now have a sheet of paper upon which I've done some brainstorming. It looks like a spider massacre at an ibiza foam party. Lots of jagged lines and bubbles. But I think I might have almost maybe decided on something approaching a direction. What I'm going to have to do is just write and see where the writing leads me.

In other news, I've discovered a wonderful way of decimating my site hits. Ah well.