Postponement...

I'd forgotten about this quote from Rilke. Sort of fits my madness from the last couple days...

So...I'm aligned with a plan to set APoS aside till the end of the year. I'm kind of burnt out on it from having pushed through Derry and NWFO. My aim was pretty ambitious...getting it all done in one year after decades of dealing with it...and my ending has shifted in a way I'm unclear about. So I want to take some time and consider all the angles and intentions before I dig back in.

A possible job came up that might mean me driving down to Philadelphia. If I do then I'm coming back through Corning and going to the Museum of Glass, again. Staying the night, close by. See if I can reconnect with Dair's Window. That was another story that kept expanding and expanding till I didn't know what it was, anymore. I set it aside a couple years ago but now wonder if I might be able to figure it out.

It's a romance, is the thing. And it's told by a dead gay man who used to be a porn actor in Toronto but was too smart to keep going with that. However, its focus is the stained glass artist he connects with who helps him believe in people, again...until he dies and his family, who'd rejected him, sues the artist. Claims the dead man made him lots of money and they want part of it.

It's a simple story being told in a complex way, and I wonder if that's the correct path to take with it. I've got a lot written, but it's not in real order, yet. So it may require a lot more work than I can give it, right now. But we'll see. That job wouldn't be till the end of the month, anyway.

I'm a lot calmer, now. I stayed off social media, pretty much, and am ignoring the VP debate. I have to get up at 6am to catch a plane, which I am NOT happy about, and the LA job just got more complex. I may not be coming home till Friday, instead of Thursday. Won't know till I get there.

Oh well...at least the income keeps me solvent.