Getting Back To It

I was on vacation last weekend, and I didn't get a chance to write at all. And yesterday, although Saturday, was a working day (today, too, in part, but that's a whole other blog). So, today - Sunday - as I wrote again, I had to remind myself where I was.
And I had to revisit a decision - now that I'm getting toward the end of writing - that I had made 2-1/2 books ago.
That's the thing about taking a day or two away. It gives you some new perspective. I had been pushing the story toward the direction I had set almost three years ago when I started writing.
But things had happened along the way. And some of that ending no longer made sense. It had been bothering me for a while. But I couldn't see what to do.
Until I had some time away. And I realized that there was another way to get to the same conclusion - getting the additional complication into the mix in a slightly different way, but a way that is in keeping with what has happened.
I could have continued down my original path. I could have made it work. But it would have been forcing the plot. I would have had to do one of the things I like least in writing - change one of the basic parameters under which I had been writing. And the "rules" of my fantasy world. That's what I had been struggling with. I was trying to find a way to keep my original idea in without violating any of the rules or subsequent plot points. And I just wasn't finding a way.
Until I abandoned that original plot point for another one. It accomplishes the same goal. But in a more elegant, less forced way.
Getting back to it - and revisiting it. Perspective gained.