fifteen...

...is up.

This one was a lot more trouble than I expected it to be, but I think I hit the right notes in the end.

Sixteen and Seventeen are both already partially drafted and coming together very well, but I don't want to rush either of them. Both are much too pivotal. But maybe we're getting to the point where everything is pivotal from here on out...

busy days

Thanks to an unexpected afternoon off of work (hooray for book publishers and the boondoggles they offer), Sixteen and Seventeen are both basically drafted.

Now I'm going to let them rest for a bit. Not only because I don't want to race them out before their time, but because my weekend suddenly booked itself -- it looks like a friend is coming into town at the last minute, and she will be whisking me away. (Oddly enough, this is the same friend whose visit caused my last mini-sabbatical from writing.) That's probably a good thing; the chapters can marinate in my mind, but I won't be able to get at them for tweaking. Should make for fresher editing, I hope.