*sniffle* *hack* *type type type*

Yep, this is a cold, all right. At least it seems to be putting itself through its paces fairly briskly.

I have written three hundred words today already and have high hopes of another chunk of about the same size. This book is certainly not moving very fast -- I don't mean the pace of my writing, I mean the speed with which the plot advances -- but I think this is just as well. Thematic, even.

Must watch a tendency to describe food whenever at a loss, however.

Pamela