Have I mentioned I like this bear? OK. So what if nobody else likes her; I do. I’m on page 165 of 373 (I double-spaced the printout for easier commenting), and I like the story. I’m making notes to fix things.

Next time through, I’ll do it on the machine, fixing the easy things and documenting my timeline–there’s a few things that I’m not sure really add up, and I need to make sure they do.

The NEXT time through will be the tough part. That’s where I need to think through the threads that got dropped during the NaNo frenzy of writing and the second wind of just getting the story down on pixels.