A change in strategy: my novel and I now have an open marriage

Long time readers (and real life friends) know that I have been working on a novel for so long that I usually just refer to it as, The Novel, and people know what I mean. I want to finish it. I have been working on it for far too long. It is also my epic masterpiece work so I am spending ages perfecting it. I am still very committed to finishing it but I decided to try a different strategy for a while.

Sometimes I come up with ideas for another story, unrelated to The Novel. Each time, I tell my