So Apple squeezed out a new edition of Aperture (and it’s actually rather good). It’s just unfortunate that it’s come now as I’m contracted to write a new edition of this book
The deadline is mid-April.
Fortunately that’s eminently do-able. It just means that the novel is going to have to take a bit of a back seat for a little while.
Is that a good thing? Yes, and no, I think.
No, because I’m really enjoying it. I never resent opening the same old file yet again, as I have done almost every day for most of the last year, meeting the same characters, working out whether they’re saying what they should the way they ought.
Yes, because it might do me good to have a break.
I read that Stephen King recommends putting your work aside for six weeks between writing and starting on the edit. I didn’t do this, so maybe I didn’t have a chance to step away from the words and view them a few weeks later with a fresh, unsympathetic eye.
Enforced exile could do me good. And it could do the book good, too.
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