Keeps getting bigger

Well, that's interesting. The outline for To Drive the Cold Winter Away just keeps getting longer and longer (4072 words and counting). To a certain extent, this is a matter of the number of plot threads involved and keeping them all in balance. But I'm thinking it might end up being novel length: we'll have to see how long the outline ends up being and how the outline notes translate into text. And I'm not worried about bloating because it's all about the plot threads getting woven together and I'm coming up with a lot of fun stuff in the story, like Sybil explaining to Skade how the Richard Mullen was nothing like the bandit they encountered on the trip, because that was a mere footpad, a mere grubby, nasty robber. Richard, on the other hand, was a highwayman and rode a horse like a gentleman. Despite being a grubby, nasty robber.