R. Leib's Blog: Dream State - Posts Tagged "holiday"

After a year of working on it, I have taken a few weeks off "Tourist of Infinity". I needed a break. The novel has grown from an idea of which I was uncertain into something with a life of its own, but I think I have become too close to it. I need some distance. The stirrings inside me to return to working on it have started already. Once they accelerate to the point of irresistibility, I will surrender to them. My passion for the story will be reinvigorated, and I will be prepared for the hard work ahead.

In the meantime, I have been reading and reviewing. Ideas for other stories evolve inside my head all the time. But to have the struggle with a single body of thought ingrained into your daily life for such a long time, you need to let it percolate on its own for a little while, or your fervor for it sublimates and becomes stagnant.