[JenB]

Word count update. Only now I've finished that bit and I'm not sure how to get to the next one.

[James Ewell Brown Stuart]

You could do what the writers did in MASH the movie. They had all these individual plot points and no way to connect it together...so, they came up with the loudspeaker to tie everything together. Kinda like the mice in BABE. And if you don't know how to make the segue into the next one, you could do a "Meanwhile, back at the ranch..." thing. You keep moving forward and the word total (nice total BTW) keeps adding up.