Sometimes a journey is... Just a way to get from place to place!

There is, to me, something enormously satisfying about putting a new chapter into a folder for a novel. 

I begin with a folder with one chapter in it.  Example:  Garrison's Girl the folder would begin with GG1.cwk or whatever.  Soon (!!??) There would be ggoutline.cwk and GG2.cwk and Gg3.cwk.  Slowly, the list of GG# would grow in the folder until the number reaches that last number on the outline.  15, 20, 25, 30...  Usually 15 or 20 for the average "formula romance."

So today, when I put in the latest file Name10.cwk, I felt as if I'd taken another big step toward reaching that ending number (22? 24? 25?) of this novel.  Just a small stepping stone in a larger garden of prose, perhaps (a wintery garden just now, in my novel) but every step forward is progress.

Today, I began chapter ten.  I am not holding myself to the 500 words for today (since I finished chapter nine yesterday, I do not feel compelled to stick to that schedule again 'til Monday), but I have written 123 thus far, filing it away in The Folder.

Now...if I could get Really Organized and find my 3-hole punch... Then, I could get this stuff all printed out and put in the binder which has chapters prologue - seven already there, waiting for them. 

Sorry! Rambling! I think I need that second cup of coffee...