Resolution!!!

This chapter I am working on, it keeps growing and growing in the form of self-contained sections, and now it's so huge that I can't really handle reading through it or editing it. It's like 50 pages long!

Then I was complaining yet again about this to poor CC and I realized that this chapter is like The House the Pecks Built. Did you read that when you were a kid? It's about this family (the Pecks) who start out with this tiny house, but then they all build different rooms on their house so that they can do their favorite things (a bowling room, a sewing room (this being 1950), a play room, etc.; I kind of forget what the rooms were actually, but the point is) The point is that the house has like 100 rooms and the family members never see one another! And they get lonely. So they tear it all down to two rooms again.

Anyway, so I resolved that today, I am going to do what the Pecks did and delete 9/10ths of the Chapter! No, that is not true. But I resolved to like, just whip this chapter into some kind of "finished first draft" state and then declare it a finished first draft and get on with my life! So at Thanksgiving, like the European imperialist slave-owning pilgrims, I will have something to be thankful for (but unlike them, it will not be imperialism or slavery.)