When I feel myself being drawn back into a writing project after a period of inactivity I know that I am onto something worthwhile. Over the recent holidays I felt that pull growing stronger. This last week it has been almost irresistible. If I had not been committed to something rather demanding then I have no doubt that I would have tapped out several more thousand words quite happily.

Although I have been away from my keyboard I have still been working on the book in my head. I have been considering what I have written so far and looking to improve upon it. Nothing major has come to mind. There is a scene that I think that I will re-write but it has more to do with the location than anything else. Everything else about the piece is good but I want to change the setting something else because it is too similar to another scene later in the story. Essentially, this is just editing, but I am taking the approach that what positive changes I can make now will only make the formal editing process all the easier further down the line.

There is one key element that I have been seriously considering because it asks some important questions and that is, what is the point of the story and how will it conclude? The fact that I do not as yet have the answers to those questions is both interesting and worrying. With all of my other novels I always had a rather good idea where they were going and how they would end, but with Pomerania this is not the case. I find this interesting because it means the story is free to develop on its own and worrying because I also know that there is a crucial point in the creation of anything where the artist must exert some self-discipline and stop! I have ruined more than one painting or drawing by being unable to resist the urge to add one more touch simply because I did not recognise when it had been completed. The same can happen with a book. At the moment this is not a great concern because I am a long way from the finish line, but it also occurred to me that if I do not know where the book is going then how am I supposed to spot where it should end?