So who will I buy my next book from?
It annoys me that you cannot write as fast as I read. Nor could Heinlein, Jordan, Clancy, Dickson, Eddings, Adams, Stasheff, Goodkind,...
Twain gets a free pass - he has an excuse. He is dead.
I'm guessing another month or two to be finished the rough, with a completed length of about 375 pages.
I am trying to maintian about a six month time period between novels (I always hate waiting a year or more myself). I'll be close this first time and hope to maintain that. Not easy to do while putting bread on the table and having 400+ page volumes.
Twain's excuse is a good one in that regard ... by default. I hope not to have to use that one for some very long time to come. Got Grand kids coming now and this Granmpa plans on hanging around as long as the good Lord will allow.