Morning Star Rising

65,950 / 150,000 (44.0%)

Another fine day of progress, and planning another one today.

My first volume of the Codex Florentine arrived yesterday, and boy is it a treat. Nice cloth-bound book that looks like a library book, and some of the entries make for rather amusing reading, particularly Sahagun's descriptions of "evil women" and their "friction-loving vulva." This particular volume (10) includes an encyclopedia of Nahautl terms for the parts of the body and native cures for ailments as well as detailed explanations of various careers available to both men and women in Pre-Conquest Mexico, and some history of the Toltecs and Mixtecs, so I think I will find this particular volume quite useful in fleshing out details for my novel.

Morning Star Rising

71,306 / 150,000 (47.5%)

Struggled a bit with distances between cities today and I think my characters take too long getting someplace that appears to be only ten kilometers from where they are. One character is wounded, and the terrain isn't flat, but I'm still concern, particularly since they cover about ten times the distance in just a few days in a previous chapter. I'm going to have to rethink these details and make changes.