1500 more words, Chapter 19 of TIWTBWO #3 is done, and I am a bit grumpy because it then took a ridiculously long amount of time to find a working floppy to transfer from my writing computer to my desktop and ensuingly I did not have time last night for the long hot bath my back is in need of.
That takes me just over 80,000 words. This is thrashing about a lot; I think I am going to move forward to the next inflexion point, which should be about chapter 24, and then rework some of the earlier stuff. (Rather than having a Big Middle, this is a book of three parts, and chapter 24/25, depending on how the intervening scenes organise themselves, will be the end of the second part.)