Heard from Muse Margaret - she hadn't read the pages last night because it was her anniversary and she and her ever-lovin' Richard went out to celebrate thirty-six years. But, she read them this morning and was very happy with it all save for some stuff in the first chapter. The way she first said that she had problems with the opening got me really worried, but it turned out to be some really minor stuff - words, really, descriptive prose that she didn't feel were right for Adriana - it took me all of thirty seconds to fix those four or five things. Funnily, too of the words I'd used in one of the other books and she'd had the same reaction then and I'd removed them or replaced them - but I forgot about it and used them again. But that's why she's so good with my stuff. She just instinctively knows when something is off, even if it's one word or a phrase. But she loved everything else, especially the return of a character from the last book. And the plot is holding her interest, so that's good. And I'm mushing on and have written a little over a page. I'm still feeling a little weird but my throat is already feeling better.
