Last night saw a productive start to my story. I started by deleting the first three words that I'd written previously. I now have 1,900 words of chapter one. Our hero has said several things already and had a swallow of scotch before hearing the bad news. But I can't tell you about that without giving away too much. Hee hee hee.

Incidentally, River Selkie and I have decided that a little friendly competition will provide some extra motivation to complete our novels. As she's already about 28,000 words ahead of me, she's aiming for 100, 000 words (roughly the end of her novel) and I'm aiming for 75,000 words (roughly three-quarters). The first person to reach the target will give the other a virtual pat on the back. Regular readers of our blogs will be able to keep tabs on our progress. Egging us on would be extremely helpful. Egging us with real eggs would be less helpful, however, and messier.