Over the weekend, I finished writing chapter 5 of my middle grade fantasy novel, The Dark Wizard. It turned out to be longer than I expected, a bit over 4,000 words, which is lengthy for one my chapters; I usually keep chapters between 1,000 and 2,000 words. Anyway, I’m a quarter of the way through my rough outline. The wordcount is now a little over 10,000 words.