Update...

Back in actual writing mode.
Added a number of new words to the main manuscript for Fall of the Onyx, and it's going well. Word count now at 71213, at this moment.
Writing fiction is a lot like looking for gold. Sometimes one has to dig around a bit and do a lot of backbreaking work, in a manner of speaking, and sometimes you just sit quietly by a stream and pan and the stuff just appears, gleaming, from among the grains of sand.
This is all about putting the bricks together, and pressing them into the mortar to add to the building. So that the story looks less like a pile of bricks, and more like a proper structure. :)