The Art of Editing Very, Very Slowly · 9:26pm Nov 29th, 2020
I suspect that if I hadn't fallen off my roof, I might be done with Pillars of Society by now. As it is I am crawling through Chapter 28, dazed by pain and pain meds in equal measure, mentally kicking myself because my brain and arms were unharmed in the incident, so what is the big hold up? 
It is honestly hard to tell if the progress I'm making is 'good' progress or not. I can read; I've done a fair amount of it since the incident, actually. Words are easier to focus on than the bright noises and loud sights of TV and cinema. I have read a couple percent of Fallout: Equestria and a solid fifth of a newish Noami Novik novel whose premise I would describe as 'dungeon crawl high school'. But I am NOT EXACTLY READING CRITICALLY HERE. Fallout: Equestria is still a deeply flawed masterpiece but right now I'm here for the aspect of it where the characters are constantly traumatized and in intense physical pain. That's me right now. I feel represented. I feel seen.
The Novik thing -- A Deadly Education, that's it -- is more or less the same sort of thing. Ichor, gore, disheveled teenagers being sexily irate with one another. Are there flaws? Probably? Couldn't tell you. It's not boring and that's all I care about right now.
To be fair. That's all I EVER care about in reading. Just... keep telling me things. Keep the characters feelings intense but simple. Just keep the cool stuff coming.
Do I have a point? Or have I been typing this blog post for long enough that sunk cost fallacy has set in and I don't want to close the window without posting?
Maybe mainly that I'm worried about flubbing Lyra's most important scene with Bean. I have to recognize the delicacy of the emotions involved even as top-level mages exchange volleys of words and large objects. Should I bull through it? Hiatus it and finish it next year? Just... stop talking and hope nobody notices?
...
*sneaks behind curtain*
*crashing noises*
*sound of opening door*
*silence*
It's fine, better late than never, health is more importnant
You should focus on getting better before finishing your story. It's perfectly forgivable to take time off from writing until you're physically and mentally well enough to continue. Get well soon!