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The day before I got over forty pages. It was an amazing day. I would write until I thought surely I’m finished, but the ideas pushed so hard they pulled me back to the computer to just make some notes. Pages later, the notes would be book. All day I kept walking away thinking I was done, then drawn back for a just a little more. When I hit forty pages, I thought, well this was great but tomorrow will be a bust. It usually is after a day when the muse sings that loud in your head. But lo and behold I got thirteen pages done yesterday. Now, when those pages were done, I was tired, and ready to stop. But the fact that I had such a productive day after having a freaking amazingly productive day the day before says something about where this book is. It’s ready to be written. I think I’ve been waiting a long time to get Edward back on paper. He’s such a strong character in my head that sometimes I forget how long it’s been since he’s been in a book. It’s hard to believe he hasn’t been in a book since OBSIDIAN BUTTERFLY which was book nine. But it was more than that on the marathon day, it was also that Richard hit the page, and therapy has done him good. I think DANSE MACABRE, or events in the book, made Richard have to look more realistically at what he can expect between himself and Anita. Not what he wants, but what is really possible. Hell, I don’t know what happened, but the Richard who stepped on stage that day was calmer, more in control of himself, more certain of himself. Richard doesn’t talk as directly to me as some of the characters, so his motives are often a mystery to me. But whatever the cause, it was nice to see. It was nice to write, and in some ways, as with Edward, it feels like Richard in this scene has also been a long time coming. My greatest wish is to have all my characters happy. I don’t know if that’s truly possible, but at least everyone was getting along that day.