I’ve spent most of the year working on Fractured Night which is now with the line editor. Phew, it’s the best, longest and most complicated thing I’ve written yet! What I want to articulate is that feeling of relief after (mostly) finishing a long project. Focusing on this one project in my spare time, excluding lots of other things I enjoy doing. Getting sad when people talk about how cool Baldur’s Gate 3 because I’ve missed all that getting this novel done. Really wanting to see this book done but always with more work to do on it, and trying to remember why I started this in the first place… And then it reaches a stage gate and I can relax. I know a ‘weight off my shoulders’ is a bit of a metaphor, but that’s what it feels like. It’s nice to have this moment to breathe and relax, a space where there are no pressing commitments.
And what do I want to do? Write something else! Videogaming might have to be put off a bit longer…
What do you feel like when you finish some momentous task? Do you want a break, or want to start the next big thing?