Finally at the point in vacation where after being away so long from the chaos, almost forgot why a week off of work seemed so urgent. Something about reading as late into the night as I want and waking up at 8AM that smooths over the memories of exhaustion.<\/p>\n
Neglecting all but the compulsory chores ( dishes, litter box and vacuuming ) the week thus far has been remarkably relaxing, yet purposeful. There’s two reasons for the sense of productivity, even when to outside appearances, I’m idling about the apartment in a robe well into the afternoon.<\/p>\n
Twice a year I review all my investments, and for the first time in two years after reviewing the numbers, I haven’t yearned to stuff everything in a mattress and set the bed on fire. Financial markets are whimsical as a summer storm, so who knows what tomorrow may bring. But thus far this year, it’s been pleasant. <\/p>\n
Second and more importantly, been working on the sequel to The Last Track.<\/em> Based on a wide pool of reviewer feedback, I’m making a few adjustments in the way the story develops. There will be more of some elements and a little less of others. Actually reading or hearing what people honed in on was pretty surprising. The most unexpected compliments were about parts of my writing I had considered the weakest.<\/p>\n Sub plots will be ratcheted down both in number and in detail; I’m definitely sensitive to the fact a lot happens in the pages–though the open ends did resolve at the conclusion. While there’s infinite ways to develop story arc, overall I’m aiming for a slightly more economical approach to secondary plots in general.<\/p>\n And that’s about it at 1:37 AM on Thursday. Ah, vacation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Finally at the point in vacation where after being away so long from the chaos, almost forgot why a week off of work seemed so urgent. Something about reading as late into the night as I want and waking up at 8AM that smooths over the memories of exhaustion. Neglecting all but the compulsory chores […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introspection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12381,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12379\/revisions\/12381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}