After a loss of about 7,000 words due to a hard drive crash, and some brutal editing to take out what doesn’t advance the narrative of my bio’s subject, I’ve got a draft of Chapter 3. August turned out to be a challenging month, but I’ve ended up with 28,500+ words and 30% of the bio drafted. Good, steady progress.

In addition to the technical issues I described in my last post, I keep running into research issues...