I just passed 25,000 words in the biography I’ve been writing. By my reckoning I’m now more than 25% through my first draft. That’s good progress particularly considering that I hadn’t written a word as of May 10th of this year. My trip to Mauna Kea on the Big Island seems to have jarred things loose. Before that trip, it was all research. Now, writing is a much larger percentage of my daily efforts than research, altho...