Well, gosh! I expected to take a couple of weeks to get back in control of my latest manuscript, which fell apart rather abruptly after I removed an annoying thread (much like a woolly jumper might come undone, yes, you’ve got the idea) – I had some concern over pace after that little operation and feared losing the beginnings of several threads and characters, which is seriously not something any writer wants to encounter six months into a project with a promised publishing date only six months away.

I’m very pleased, then, to report that things are looking up. With the new stuff hammered crafted into place, I have found much of what I thought had collapsed has not, and that the pace is not as disrupted as I feared.

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