Well, not the real first chapter; it's actually the introduction. My inner editor's gonna have a field day come December, but for now, the first part of an idea that's been swirling around in my head almost a year is being put to paper... or word processor. When my mother pissed me off so bad I didn't want to write on the first, and when I finished the first planned half of my intro and hadn't even breached a thousand words, I got worried, but I triumphed at 2:09 this morning. If all these really... read more