🚀The Dark Age: The perils of downtime

Hello, friends!

I’ve been a little out-of-sorts for the past week. As I mentioned in a recent newsletter, I completed the major work of rewriting The Dark Age a few weeks back, then printed it, put it aside, and have been giving it a bit of room to breathe. In the meantime, I turned my attention to a proposal for my next young adult novel, which captured my writing energies for a little while.

But now that proposal is complete, and shipped off to my editor. Ideally I’d pick The Dark Age back up right about now, but…that proposal went quicker than I thought it would. It’s too early, still, to jump right back into my bigger-than-expected manuscript.

As a result, I don’t know what to do with myself. That feels like a problem, doesn’t it? A bit of downtime between projects is a gift. Time that I don’t owe to anyone else, or to any particular kind of work. Time I could spend on myself or my family. Instead, it’s made me restless.