I made an excel sheet for myself to track my novel's progress. Actually I found a ready-made sheet online and tweaked it to my purposes, but that's just as good.

Anyway, according to the chart, if I keep up my daily quotas, I will reach my goal of 80,000 words before March 31st. This may not mean reaching the end of the novel - I may discover at that point that I won't reach the end until 90,000 or 100,000, but even in that case, I can still hope to complete my first draft sometime in April, which definitely looks good to me.

The spotlight in these past few chapters has definitely been on Amanda (and on Elin to a slightly lesser extent). This is as it should be, but it's also making me realise that I'm going to have to go back and emphasise Amanda a lot more in the opening chapters, because as written, Sean may be a little over-emphasised. I will not be going back and changing this until the end, however (when I'm sure I'll have even more ideas about how the opening needs changed).