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And I've got this picture of cavernous, pea-soup green ears with earwax oozing out in a slow-motion avalanche.   

That sounds so much more impressive if you write "Dumbass is my metier."

You seem to think of a character as a firework on which you lavish thousands of hours of work, just to have the whole thing shoot off in a few seconds.  A character arc doesn't HAVE to be ballistic.  Your leading men and women don't have to be shooting stars.

Fair enough.

I laughed aloud.  Thanks!

If you don't mind picking up in the middle, the chapter Mellaen's Work sets up a longish sequence.  And the first few chapters do stand up in their present form (though I'm contemplating reviewers' suggestions).

Thanks.  You've hit points nobody else has.  I'll have to think about them.  A little more description wouldn't hurt, but I want to keep it light.  The previous chapters in the thread should give a lot of the picture.

One down, about 80 to go?

Of course I do ... so back to the prose mines ...

Not giving points is definitely a bug.  The logic shoulld follow from an invariant: points from the first review (completed, that qualifies for points).  Incomplete reviews should not claim the point 'token' unless it can be taken by the next review started.

Begin with the invariants.  From the invariants, develop explicit policies that will maintain the invariants.  Express the policies as explicit rules on the operations supported.  Implement the rules as actions in the appropriate places.

I expect to take delivery tomorrow of an expensive box of parts for Rolodex-like notebooks.  I'll have to begin moving my permanent notes in there, writing full character sheets, putting my 300+ theme and plot notes on insert tabs, ... all stuff that takes time.  (And I might not have ordered enough of the insert tabs.)  I'll even be trying to draw a few of the characters.
But for the moment, I'm still working on the Erevain chapters, and in particular on the flashback.  I've already retitled the version that's in place Nikkano.  I've got little descriptions to do, and the sequence of Nikkano scrying, which I might weave into the new monologue he gives Erevain.
And all sort of things keep trickling into my head about future scenes and large plot arcs.  I need to do an awful lot there, too.
Your patience is appreciated.  Much appreciated.

A spreadsheet is a poor substitute for a database.

Ho yez!

A new word for a writer is like a new tool in a guy's garage.