I'm willing to take her word for it. Now I'm back home facing chapter 16. Things seem to be pulling together. I'm having a lot of fun with this now. Having whined a lot about Charlie and Cait, it's nice to be able to say I feel much better during the writing process of this book.
Some books are like that.
Some, thank God, are like this one. One thing that has helped me keep all these people straight is a rather nifty software package called Writer's Blocks. I found a trial version on the internet, tried it and bought myself a copy because it seemed like a good way to keep events straight. In a short book that's not as big a problem. In a book as long as this one, with lots of characters, it's too easy to lose people in the shuffle or, for me at least, not to remember where I left them last.