I Have Words

This week is all about the new novel, which I began cutting on Monday.  I'm almost through chapter five now and it feels…good.

I don't know how else to put it, but it flows well.  Yes, there's fixing needs doing and I'm rewriting swaths of it, but basically it looks okay.  As I hoped when I finished the first draft a week and a half ago, I mainly have to add detail.

So I've been working at it most of today.  By hand.  I'm going out tonight, despite the awful wind and cold, to see a friend of...