At this age, the soccer coaching is as much about making sure they don't make mud puddles with their water bottles as it is about teaching soccer skills. Which is part of the fun, really.

War Horse will totally make you a blubbery mess, but it's also astoundingly good.

The BB word count is coming along, but I'm also at the "wow, this might be total crap" stage. Sex scenes to get to the rough draft minimum seems a reasonable strategy to me. *g*