Leaving Mallingry Day 18

Leaving Mallingry is going well – it’s day 18 and I have 38,162 words out of the 50,000 so far. On the spur of the moment I invented a woman to be irritating on a sofa and she immediately wormed her way right to the core of the plot, only to be bloodily despatched several chapter later, at the hands of the villain!