Just had a really long telephonic conversation with muse Margaret. She'd reread the last 100 pages, this time without rushing. She had a few suggestions, all excellent and helpful. But she was having some real problem with everything that followed my big epiphany, which is the crux of the book. She felt some of the joy and fun was missing from everything that followed, and yet she liked most of the stories. We cut a few things that she felt were unnecessary or slowed things down. I said we could conceivably end the book at the epiphany - she sort of liked that for ten seconds, but then we never really see the little journey to the real life change. And then I finally got her to boil it down to something very specific, which is that after the big moment, there's a little leap to the next paragraph and that's what was really bothering her. Once I knew that, I suggested a line to precede that paragraph, playing on the line that ended the previous paragraph and thereby tying those two things together. And that did it for her, because suddenly everything was more positive. And then we found two other places to play on that line and it just lit up the whole last thirty pages of the book. And that is why I love muse Margaret.