Technical Difficulties

77,400 words, the end of Chapter Twenty-Four, and no ?s except as punctuation.

A little work on the start of Chapter Twenty-Five, and a number too felicitous to resist: 77,777 words.

Chapter Twenty-Four was hell on toast to write and it's probably going to need considerable shaping once the draft is done. But this is why first draft != final draft, and that's okay.

Not a very good day health-wise, so I'm pleased that I've accomplished as much as I have, even if most of it was just typing in what I wrote yesterday. We take our victories where we find them.

In other news, Elise struck like lightning from a clear blue sky, and these will soon be mine. And demanding a new dragon story as they come.

I have no idea what this story will even be like. Thus far it has offered two potential first lines:

1. Like geology, dragons happen.

2. The dragons of earth and sky are sleeping.

I don't know that either of these is right, nor do I know that either of them is wrong. They can mutter around my back brain while I write this damn novel, and maybe come springtime, the dragons and I will know each other well enough to say.