Ah, well.

Sometimes when I write into the night, magic things happen. And sometimes...they, um, don't.

Still, there remains a chance I will finish this manuscript within Gauntlet II time constraints (that is, by midnight, February 29). And at the end of it, I have another completed novel manuscript — at least a first draft thereof — and that's not a small thing. Especially considering that the first one took me about fifteen years (maybe longer, I don't quite remember) to write, and the second one only...um...three and a half months so far. That's a pretty good increase in speed. Perhaps not in quality, not yet, but that's what drafts are for, they tell me.