I did it! Got Chapter 4 onto paper. I started rewriting this chapter 4 times. I hope this isn't a sign of things to come (e.g. chapter 5 will need 5 attempts, chapter 6 six attempts, etc.) I knew what needed to happen in this chapter. Knew that arc of thinking the characters had to undergo to move the story along, and pretty much had a good setting ready for the action to take place. Really struggled on where to enter the scene. Finally a figured out that I was coming in too early and letting the main character do too much thinking. Too much mulling over. But it took 4 attempts before I got it down satisfactorily. On a reread, the tempo of the narrative and dialogue seems pretty good. There are things to clean up but I can do that when I go in to edit.

On the plus side, I am pretty sure I know how the characters are going to get to The End. I say pretty sure because after I few days of knowing For Sure how they got there, I've started wondering if it's too corny. Too much of an <insert eye roll here> ending. It's a fairy tale so the wildly improbable can be pretty wild. Pretty improbable. I'll probably end it as planned and then maybe sit on it for awhile, see if anything better comes to mind.

Still got a few thousand words to go between chapter 4 and The End.