Thanks to the wonders of public holidays and  a little judicious shuffling of my day job days, I have the next five days off.  Therefore, the plan (outside of the two or three things that involve leaving the house that I am committed to) it to make like a

fire up the writerly powers of mass word production—which in my head involves something that looks like this…

(More on this bit of cool gadgetry can be found here)

And see just how close to the end of this darn book I can get.  Now, I think actually finishing may be impossible unless I get a truly stupendous last act of book word frenzy going on but I have caffeine, I have chocolate and I have a Macbook Air and I can certainly get myself a good way towards that goal (touch wood, throw salt, sacrifice chocolate to the flying spaghetti monster etc etc). To keep myself honest I shall report in with the daily stats here on the blog. Wish me luck!