I am still slogging on the proposal right now, and though I made my life, and future strategy & tactics planning sessions vastly simpler by deciding that for this first book at least the conflict will not take place across a splash of a million tiny islands but rather on one smallish continent (or largish island), I am now having to go through and pull out all references to islands.
I’m not going to get all my words on anything tonight, unless I stay up really, really late. Guess how much I want to do that.