Well, of course someone is going to try to kill her...

Mad scramble yesterday to take notes on scraps of paper when I should have been checking someone's arithmetic.

The words aren't there to show it, but I am getting things done. The problem is that much of this stuff, namely, well, PLOT, I'm thinking it through before committing pages and pages to things that may not work.

No guarantee that this will work, either, but it feels good. Ramped up the tension in the first 1/4 of the book by adding an immediate crisis (see above, kill) to the longer term problem.

And now I need to get through the morning rituals so I can go to the dentist. Morning appointments--you get them out of the way and that leaves you with the rest of the day, right?

Except for the getting-out-of-bed part, which still needs to be perfected.