Update

[ellarien]

Well, that could have been worse. Five pages, nearly three thousand words, a few of them new, and the story moved along a smidge further than it was. I managed to resist fiddling with the controls on Word until after I got that far, too. I'm still not entirely happy with it, and as someone who always used to write clean, readable-for-pleasure first drafts I find it hard to accept less than the best possible before moving on, but I think I need to forge ahead for now.