My editor and my partner are both on vacation this week (not together… although that would be cool). My editor is taking a few weeks to relax in PEI, where she lives (I believe), and my partner is doing a relaxing staycation, watching “Elementary” and “Scandal”.
This gives me some breathing room, and some time to finish the novel I’ve been trying to finish for a month now (has it been that long, I wonder aloud? Yes. Yes it has).
I’m stuck around 45k words, in a scene that has Tintian in the medbay of her ship, the Prosperous. She’s reeling from the realization that she may have just gotten her closest friend killed through what she considers negligence and by her drive to uncover a decades-old mystery. Something she feels personally responsible for, even if it may, or may not, be her fault.
I want to have one of the other characters come in as a sympathetic ear, to listen to how Tintian feels about the situation, but I don’t know if it actually serves the story. Still, it’s been tying me up in knots for the last few weeks, and it really isn’t that important a scene… so much so that I may actually end up cutting the entire scene and just have it discussed in a line or two. But by the same token, it feels important to me, as the author, to listen to what Tintian is going to say, to get a glimpse into the character I’m not so much writing as I am following around. She has a life of her own, and it’s my job to chronicle it more than it is to shape it.
Anyway. I should get back to it. Nice to have some breathing room, and nice that those around me can have a few days of relaxation in this difficult days.
Hope everyone is staying safe and healthy!