I Train for the Oscars!

Killer-Kate and Luke Lackland: Luke came down this morning like a thunderbolt back into Langdale, in the 20 words I wrote of my new chapter.

Then on the train journey into work, I detected a stupidity and deleted 17 of them.

But that's nothing.  Last night's plot twist gave me a notion for how to get rid of another 5K or so of my least favourite words during the redraft.  Diplomacy is much more fun on the hoof!

Next job: fix his revised itinerary, and match up the times for the thing he, Kate, and Kate's son are all glimpsing from separate places.  I may have to commit quite a dance between viewpoints in this chapter: all those three, certainly, and probably Elegant Elder Sister, and maybe even Flashy Elder Brother too.

Kaleidoscope Chapter: the Harbinger

Killer-Kate and Luke Lackland: 980 words.  Luke's viewpoint section.  When your army has the quality, cohesion, and baseline morale of a strawberry blancmange somebody left out in the rain, and you are running out of time, there is only one thing left to do.  It is not, peculiarly, to attack.

I think Fiery Younger Sister is going to get her brief taste of viewpoint in this chapter, too.  This is looking like a very peculiar, and perhaps a rather central, chapter.