New Novel Progress: Keep digging...

Excerpt from Ch. 7:

“¡ Bienvenidos, camaradas!” boomed Lieutenant Colonel Rivera in welcome to the newly arrived comrades. “This is the posting you both said you desired. Why the tired faces? You should be glad for the opportunity.”

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Heh. Rivera was talking to new Cuban officers assigned to Guinea-Bissau, but it seemed appropriate for today's 'blog post.

Progress is being made. I am several pages into Chapter 15 as of yesterday. Will write more during today's shift. Editing has had a first pass through the end of Chapter 13. It would be fair to say that I am 3/4 of the way to a full 1st Draft manuscript. That's not too shabby, yeah?

For those of you keeping track:

Yes, the actual mission part of the operation is going on. All the infiltration and scene-setting and travelogue and... and... preliminary stuff has been written.

Yes, all the characters have been introduced. The late arrival showed up in Ch. 13.

Yes, somebody gets whacked this chapter.

Yes, this a ton of fun to write this!