There’s something difficult about the current stage of my editing process and I can’t quite put my finger on what it is.
I wouldn’t even know about it, but for the fact that I haven’t sat down to work on it for three days, and today, when I finally have, I find myself feeling unusually tired while I’m doing it.
It could be uncertainty or indecision. I’ve had to make a few key decisions this morning, like another name change for a key character, whose previous name (I decided) was too similar to someone I know quite well.
What else? Oh, little things. Changing all of the century names to numbers, as in 14oos, instead of fourteen hundreds. 1451 instead of fourteen fifty-one, and so on. It’s the right decision, but it doesn’t feel quite right.
Also, there’s a bit of Google-related stress. As I write today, Google is not producing a tablet, but I need a tablet brand for my characters (who work for Google) and so I want it to be, obviously, a Google one. I’m currently using the Pixel Slate, but this morning I’ve been reading that they’re probably going to produce a new tablet next year. I wish I knew what that’s going to be called and meanwhile, do I stick with Pixel Slate? Or make them all rely on Pixel phones and Chromebooks, instead?
These kinds of nitty gritty decisions, small, but plentiful and important, are draining, I must admit.
It’s probably that, then.