40,609!

At this rate, I'll hit 50,000 in another two months. Of course, I don't know if the story will be finished at that point. For all I know, this is a 100,000-word book, in which case it'll be another year, writing at this pace. But I think I might be at least halfway through already. And I can speed up, if I need to. I think maybe.

Ah, poor Beth. I'm sorry, real Beth, because I'm definitely putting the Beth in Sometimes Blind through a lot of crap. I don't know that you'll be happy about sharing names.