Result...

[teadog1425]

Well, I didn't make my challenge...  I got a page of solid (if not perfect) prose - mostly from Saturday.  Today events just upped and ran away with me - what with the unexpected crises on top of the things I already had planned - well, let's just say, I didn't spend a lot of the day sitting in front of the computer.

The thing I was struggling with most was what

matociquala calls 'line of direction', and what I think of as 'flow'.  I had intended just to write loose first-draft prose, but what was coming out was more second-draft, which then asks for a lot of time spent moving different chunks of the sentence around to see whether it can read more smoothly if that chunk comes earlier or later.  Add to that some struggling with characters that would not transition between one conversation and another, and really I'm quite pleased to have got what I got.

Today, I also rode, played football, shopped, took the dog for a long walk, and cooked a roast...  Now, I am v tired, and will sleep...!

More on the riding, later...