Splashdown

I got to the end of the first draft at 43,000 words. Definitively the end. Since this is short of what I intended for the overall length of the book, what it means is that I'll go back to the front and read through it and add more on the front end to get to the word count I want for the piece. This is a natural process, anyway--invariably on rewrite, sections are added and expanded (or eliminated). But the ending I got to just works so fluidly in the story, I had to go with it. I'm thinking I'll need about 55,000 more words written, which shouldn't be a problem.