DrabbleWriMo 8: Absent

I actually managed to type up a whole chapter (3600 words) of Raoul 'playing Hornblower' on board the Requin this evening (and went on past midnight because I wanted to get to what happened next, which is a good sign). That brings us to 17 chapters and about 64,000 words -- and halfway through the second notebook of three-plus-seven-pages-of-the-fourth.

The result of which was that I started my daily drabble even later than previously...

It does occur to me that Broster's discursive style (which I think I've managed to capture quite well, especially where Roland is concerned!) is peculiarly unsuited to being adapted to the drabble format -- but then so is my own :-p (Possibly not coincidence, as she was a heavy influence on my formative years.)
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