She almost slipped away.  I was stuck in the middle of a chapter.  It was a little rough there for a few days.  Tonight, it just happened to fall out.  The Process works.   I sat down with no words for the page and just let the work find itself and let the process begin.  I placed my fingers to the keyboard and just let them go.  Before long, Alice was in my head.  I was in hers and the words began to flow.  And flow.  And flow.  Turned out to be the longest chapter I have written so far and I’m not 100% certain I’m done with that chapter yet.  There’s still a lot of words that need to come out.  I wrote as long as I dared and clocked in around 48,000 words now.  237 pages.   And, we’re just getting started.