Word count

It's official: I have now written 23,000 words of worldbuilding and prewriting for Warriors of the Duskmarch to date. Considering I wrote less than 5,000 words of worldbuilding for my first novel--and that took over a year--this is very encouraging! What's more, I'm confident that most of this material is actually useful, as opposed to useless fluff, which tends to accumulate as soon as I lose focus. But I believe I'm tightly focused on the story here, which is good.

The other good news is that I've started another critique for a full novel, which should help me to get back into the writing gear pretty quickly.