I have officially submitted my word count to the NaNoWriMo site, and it stands at 61,065 words. While this is short of my goal of approximately 80,000 words before the end of November, completion of this task and the first inklings of momentum in a long-distance writing ambition are reward enough. The novel at hand, which I consider concept art for a larger, more official canon, is entitled The Adventures of Mary. As this is an ongoing series, the working title for this particular installment is Pilot. I will continue to write into December, but for now I will fall back to reload and develop the concepts for the second batch of chapters. At present I am through with 12 chapters, and I covered an awful lot of stuff in each one, but this is only the tip of the iceberg.

The great news is that I will be posting these chapters on a weekly basis, starting with the first Saturday of 2013. While it will be a while before the titular character, Mary, gets into the headlight, I encourage readers to stick around, because I wish to accomplish a big story that few web serials ever achieve. I have enough material and enough ideas for story that this will last for a while, and it will only get better as introduce a cast of characters that becomes more and more distinct over time.

Also, look forward to the prologue, coming out on Christmas day! So if you're interested, keep an eye out for my blog, or the CoT Library should the current petition for one win official favor, and get yourself mentally prepared for a really, really long epic that will only improve. I will do everything within my creative power to see to it that this keeps you entertained, because this is all about you.