Pludged all the way through the chapter, which turns out to be Chapter Eight. Will it stand up to later scrutiny? I doubt it; nothing else has. Nonetheless, it is done for now, except I think I left one transition unfinished. Still, it is a relief to see the blank white chunk of space that says this chapter is over. I think at one point that sucker (Ch. 8) must have had a billion pages of cr*p to sort through, select and put in some kind of order. Now it doesn't look like my dog chewed up 15 pages of dialog and barfed it into a pile. No, now it looks like a second grader was making a collage and pasted a bunch of mildly related snippets together. That's the kind of thing I have to call "progress," at this stage of the game.