It hasn’t been that long, has it?

Here’s something:

This was the day. The last day.

Feliga was the first to arrive in the pre-dawn mist. She stood under the huge new statue Maximus had built for himself in the middle of the Forum, with the single word IMPERATOR chiseled at its base. He had chosen that title for himself, and the people of Arga had approved. Together they dreamed of building an empire, and he would be its leader. With his dark, deep-set eyes and firm jaw, he seemed to be gazing into the future, determined to make the dream come true. Feliga and the rest were meeting in the shadow of his statue as a kind of joke, because it was he, after all, who wanted to destroy them.

That’s the beginning of a novel. I finished it the third draft of it the other day, and now I’m pondering the thing. It’s longer than anything I’ve written before: 155,070 words, Microsoft Word tells me. Don’t know how to make it shorter at the moment. And it needs a sequel.

Anyway, that’s what I’ve been up to. Meanwhile, WordPress has changed its UI into something I find almost incomprehensible. How did they manage that?