Word Count: 17,334

It’s been one of those writing days when I’m tempted to put everything I’ve written straight into the bin. But no, I can’t do that, so I have turned my internal editor off. She was getting far too loud, chuntering away in the background and trying to impose her will on my overstretched imagination. There’ll be time enough for rewrites when the challenge is over. As James Michener said, ‘I’m not a very good writer, but I’m an excellent rewriter.’