Better late than never, or so they say.
The Watchmaker's Chain spent many months in a state of suspended animation, and as I've reported before, when I came to try to re-animate it, I found that I was suffering from a severe case of writer's block.
It wasn't so much that I couldn't think what to write, but that I had suspended the creative process at a point in the story where some critical information was just about to be shared with the reader, and a necessary prerequisite of breathing life into the story was that I was completely clear as to what that information was, how much of it would immediately be made clear, and how it would be presented. To make matters worse, the rest of the book (and the plot's 'critical path') is heavily dependent upon that information, and upon my getting the balance of detail and revellation right. Sadly, this proved to be a difficult, protracted and painful process.
Well, several weeks later, I'm happy to report that I did eventually overcome this problem and with it the writer's block. The Watchmaker's Chain has now advanced by another eight thousand words (the total now stands at just over 40,000), and counting.
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