A month later, and still no better on my part. These have been busy times, plagued with things like illness and travel and illness during travel. Terrible excuses, I know, and more terrible excuses are coming your way: namely that I’m participating in National Novel Writing Month this year and consequently already tiring days become even more tiring, and thus are my creative impulses exhausted.
I know you all have lost hope in me. I am deeply ashamed. As a consolation, here is a sneak peek of page 3:

