"Books aren't written - they're rewritten. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it." - Michael Crichton

I hope I will never have a seventh rewrite, but then never say never. It is recently that I have realised that the book really is in the rewrite. It is only as you put ideas onto paper in the detailed form of a story that the true path unravels.

Seeking Queen Praedar: I wrote another 1,000 words tonight getting me to 75,129. At this rate I will reach 100,000 words by 25 October. The question remains: will the story be finished by then?