Well, tonight is my last night of vacation after having two weeks off. Cec and I didn't go anywhere, which was actually quite nice. It was great to just catch up on sleep, relax around the place and get our heads away from work for a while.
After that crazy month bouncing city to city in the US, it felt like a miracle to have some sustained time to sleep and read, and after spending most of the first week depressurizing I picked up this book I've been trying to write again. I got about 20 pages pounded out, which has been an amazing feeling. I tied off one of the character development flashbacks and can now fuse that back in to the main story and get back to building tension.
The thing is still less than half done, at best - this one character was supposed to be the love interest for the protagonist and I hadn't planned to give her that much detail. But I ended up getting into a lot of research on Soviet-era Estonia and the SSR apparat (she's Estonian and her parents were SSR nomenklatura back in the day), so I got into this big digression and just couldn't stop expanding on her.
Fox knows how long it's going to take me to finish this thing, considering how long it's taken so far. After spending more than a week working at it, I know I could actually get it done if I was allowed some sustained time like this to focus on it. But alas, the world doesn't work that way.
No regrets. There are some hopefully exciting changes coming up with the company soon (more on that later), and it will be good to dive back in and get some of this off the ground.
Posted by case at August 12, 2007 10:48 PM