First edit complete

... and I managed to reduce the rough draft down to 88,427 words. So not really much progress there at all. Maybe I have to resign myself to the fact this is going to be a long book. And to the fact it is just going to be the first one in a series.

Still, it isn't ALL bad. Some of it, in fact, is quite good, even if I do say so myself.

Taking a month off from it. Going back to my 09 nano and trying to beat it into shape. mean cutting out one entire strand of the novel - oddly, the strand I originally started writing. Dunno what is left once that is cut out, but there is something. Some of it not very nice, and most of it very poorly written.