No update this week.
Right, so no “Stillwater improvements” update today or tomorrow either. Eventually I’ll find the right day. 
That said, the Carrington/Mouse stuff is going along well enough, so I might as well put the word count idea to use that I’ve been intending to.
Originally I thought to pair it with the current update, but since that’s been going “not as planned”, I’ll just post it now. (of course, the word counter will be useless in this kind of situation where it’s more based on my circumstances than the completeness of the update
(normally very rare, but worryingly more and more common for the last several updates. I blame the unfamiliar subject matter
)).
Carrington/Mouse one night stand progress:
Mouse party part: 9,000 / 15,000
Carrington party part: 8,000 / 15,000
Shared party part: 2,000 / 15,000
Mouse explicit/non-party part: 4,000 / 15,000
Carrington explicit/non-party part: 8,000 / 15,000
Shared explicit/non-party part: 0 / 15,000
tl;dr: Goal number is only partially accurate, updates won’t be released the moment the first number reaches the latter. Progress can range from 0 to 40,000 words a week depending on circumstances.
First number is rounded up number of words written(unpolished), after the / is the predicted/estimated number I’ll be writing for the update. This means the end result can be higher or lower than the latter number, since it’s just a guess. (additionally I won’t count the “planned and semi-written” parts here, just the mostly-finished parts, since I often scrap the planned stuff entirely if I can’t get it to work the way I want)
Also, progress is rarely linear, meaning there may be weeks when I get tens of thousands of words done, or weeks when I get zero words done. I’m almost always inconsistent with the amount I manage to put out, since it depends on not only my free time, but also the part I’m currently working on and how much I know about it, whether I can turn planned stuff into actual “finished” parts, etc.
Anyway, hopefully this’ll give a better idea of where I am regarding each update, even if it’s not particularly reliable. It should at the very least eliminate a fair deal of my pointless optimism/delusion on how much I think I can get done that has lead to my always wrong deadlines. (which is exactly why I don’t count the planned stuff, since that’s often where my error lies. It always seems so simple to convert that stuff into a finished product, when it rarely is. The annoying part is that even though I’m aware of it, I always make the same mistake
)