i  now have three chapters.  It’s true what they say.  You just have to sit your butt in a chair and write.  Well, it turns out that my butt is nearly always in a chair, but I don’t nearly always have time to write, and often, what I want to do when I don’t have to do other things is stare vacantly into space.

Nonetheless, I have three chapters, amounting to some 14,000 words at present.  This is not counting chapter seventeen, which it turns out, is not chapter seventeen, but will likely be chapter six or seven.

I use the word “finally” a great deal.  This is because I have a number of characters who think for long periods of time before saying anything.  There are a lot of pauses.  Finally–see, I’m doing it!–someone speaks.  Oh dear.

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