Finished up the prologue, which turned out to be a couple pages longer than planned. But I think I’m falling for Reginald’s character — yet another old fart character that I seem to enjoy writing…

Now I’m ready to dive into chapter one, which I’ve already scraped clean of Pablo, I think. I ended up deleting some more of the sitting around and talking sections from my earlier version, so today is going to be a negative word count day. I figured I’ll remove more sections as I get to ’em — it’s just easier to re-draft than try to edit stuff that’s headed in the wrong direction. The whole lipstick on a pig thing, to pull a line from today’s political headlines…