I'm switching to another story I plan to serialize. I've never done this before. Normally I can't rest unless I complete one idea and only then can I move on to the next idea. My new state of mind sees me flipping back and forth between multiple things. I miss the focus I once had, but these two stories seem well suited to my new state of mind.

My writing is all over the place. I’m composing chapters out of sequence. I’m writing two different books at once, switching back and forth as I think of things. I’m editing just hours or days after finishing each chapter. I never used to do any of this. As recently as Solid Magic, I wrote from beginning to end, rarely going out of order, saving the editing for after I was done with the entire first draft. Something has changed. Even in the way I mow the lawn. I don’t do it linearly anymore. I used to be methodical and efficient, doing each section in order. Now I’m all over the place. I still don’t like the change, but these two stories seem to suit my new writing technique/state of mind.