One chapter and an epilogue to go. At 54,200 words, it will be at the right length. This will be my first designated Young Adult novel. I say designated, because many of my books are really directed at my 16 year old self, especially my first three books.

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All right, wrote what I thought was going to be the last chapter. It was hard, took me an entire day of procrastination. 

Now I see that I do need one more chapter rather than an epilogue.

Up to 55,300 words. So undoubtedly going to go over 56,000 words, which is a good number for YA.

I'm going to ask Linda to do an edit, which I don't usually presume to do. She likes hard copy, so I'll be printing this up tomorrow.