Switching over from the old version of Word to the new version seems to have screwed up my novel, and I am not enough of a Word egghead to be able to figure out the formatting issue.  It is, of course, driving me insane.  Stupid reason not to work on a novel, but there it is.  It was so distracting that even though I had gotten caught up (in Blade, incidentally) on where the story was and what I needed to do to it, I couldn't compose myself enough to actually write on it.

Stupid.

I worked on Nicholas again instead.  Which isn't a complaint, it's just...  I want to work on Blade again.  It's irritating me that I am not, because I am much farther along with that novel than I remembered (I am nearly to the funbits!  The climax!  The slog of the middle is almost over!) and I would really, really like to just be done with it now, please? 

Naturally, that's easier said than done, especially when the formatting has gone all wonky.  FEH!

I am thisclose to doing a copy/paste into notepad and making a new Word document.  Of course, I want to know what went wrong so I can avoid it in the future-- which is the only reason I have not done that-- that's the easy way out.

At least I have a backup plan in case I can't fix it.  And, of course, there is always the last resort-- the shout-out in LJ of "help!"  Because LJ has all the answers.  *grin*

Anyway.  I have a basic, bare-bones plot for Nicholas, and I am considering writing an outline.  I have gotten far enough into the story to have gotten "backstory" in my head from most of the big players, and it's a lot of fun.  I really like that world.  It's come together well, and I am pleased. 

So, that's where that stands, and I'll probably start putting together the Nicholas outline tomorrow.  And start kicking around an actual title.  "Nicholas," while the narrator, isn't the focus of the book-- the murder is.  (Duh, right?)  Hopefully getting the outline together will help me come up with a title.