The creative process is a weird thing. I’ve been wrestling with the current work-in-progress for months now. I finally realized I’d taken a wrong turn and had to throw out the last 10,000 words I’d written (about four chapters). I’ve now replaced those words and I’ve been zooming on. I’m currently at 56K words of a project 70-75K. Until this morning, though, I wasn’t entirely clear how the story would resolve. Then I woke up at 5:00 a.m. and couldn’t get back to sleep. But as I lay in bed dozing, thinking about the story, playing with possible scenes, the entire rest of the story fell into place.