The last couple of days have been dominated by children's party organisation, so word counts have been barely into the twenties.  Instead I spent my free minutes surfing around looking for writing I felt a connection with to try and bump my own into a slightly different kind of level. 

After a while I realised that no amount of 'research' into other writers' was going to be much of a help because they're all good in their own way and that isn't my way. Then I went back to my opening chapter, too