17,156 and counting..

by and large the book is going very well, pieces of plot keep falling into my lap, have some jokes I rather like and some entertaining set-pieces, i am approximately on target and so far I haven't resorted to the wild desperation of writing any old rubbish, like they thought we might by this point. Inevitably, it was going to be a comic novel of sorts and i know not going to be masterpiece but the style is turning out different to what i envisaged, worringly it is very like a Ben Elton book. And you know what I think of him