I'm gunna cheat.

[skyring]

Word count verification doesn't end until a minute before midnight, Howland Island time. I think that's somewhere west of Hawaii. And I'm going to use as much of that time as I can, which is probably an additional twenty hours or so. I figure I'm entitled, cos I was so tired at the moment of 00:01 1 November that I went to bed and didn't write anything until that night, and it was only a hundred words or so.

Besides, I've cheated already by writing the first chapter months ago. I'm not including that in the word count. Despite the temptation.

Anyway, we'll see.