~950 words. Spent most of the time editing my main Yuletide story, though it didn't change in more than detail. I did add a little bit in an attempt to fix a red herring that got left to stink and I also improved one key passage a bit, but mainly it was a lot of very minor style/grammar/punctuation choices trying to improve the pastiche that took ages & ages, and won't really be noticeable. It's up now, but I might have another read and play with the commas before the reveal...

Then I forced myself to finish the treat. I took people's advice and did a jump to the bit that interested me, and it worked! I actually got it finished in fewer words than I'd anticipated. That's in too.

I had yesterday off, and now I'm trying to decide what to do next. Jade Dragon's the obvious answer, but I really need to decide with that whether I'm going to try to repurpose it as an original novel or finish it as Earthsea fanfiction. I'm leaning towards the latter, and considering subsequently writing an original novel perhaps with Harebell (the female sidekick) as the protagonist. It feels a bit unending -- it's about 50k now and not halfway through, and I've been working on it on & off since 2011 -- but if I can write 15k words a month, which is doable, I could have it finished in under 6 months.