So on Saturday, I wrote 685 words and today I wrote 1,130 words.
Searched through my book,
Bad Fiction, and notes, looking for any confirmation of dates and ended up with a wider variety of possibilities. LOL. Wish I remembered the reference point the published book referred to. I think I figured out a workaround that will leave it open to correction in a future book, should I remember or figure it all out.
I'm at around 109k words now. Would a 200k word novel be too long?

The length might make it "epic fantasy" at this point, but I don't know how "epic" it could be considering that the characters seem to talk a lot. On the one hand, I seem to frequently worry my characters talk too much. On the other hand, when a group of friends hang out together and go on trips or whatever, it seems pretty normal that they talk a lot, and argue about seemingly silly things. I mean, I remember years ago I had a discussion/argument with my neighbor over who won the Civil War (American). And it wasn't one of those philosophical debates over who
really won something; it was a debate over who factually won. (And, just so there is no question, I was the one who was right.)
Maybe I can rest easy on the possibility that TV sitcoms have conditioned readers to expect that characters will talk a lot and that talking moves storylines along further than standing around doing stuff. Fingers crossed!