Change of direction

Nearly 26,000 words into my latest novel project, I’m puting on the brakes and setting the manuscript aside for a while.

The problem isn’t with the story. Certainly, it’s been tougher going than the novel I just published, “Six-Hundred Hours of a Life.” That one I wrote in 24 crazy days (followed by a few months of revising and recasting).

No, the hold-up isn’t really a problem at all. About 24 hours ago, I was overtaken by a brainstorm of a story, one that swung away at my head with a sledgehamme