I'm a real writer with a real story? Wow. I think so, too, but it's always a surprise when someone else agrees with me. Thank you.

The ghosts do seem to be good for word count. Yesterday one of them decided to amuse himself chasing his daughter's ship. He was bouncing from wave to wave like some demented skipping stone, or something like that. I threw some dolphins into the scene. Advanced the plot not at all, and it may all go in the revision phase, but the by the end of the day, I had a couple of vivid pictures.

Definitely Not Wayne Newton.

Not allowed to bail, huh?