Twelve years of writing Hunger’s Brides! How does one cope with such a situation?
Coping is a good way to look at it. A twelve-year pursuit seems somewhat otherworldly, but it is at times measurable in little earthly details – some of them just outside the window over my desk: houses come and go; children and trees get taller; some are cut down. At my niece’s high school graduation ceremony it came to me that I’d begun the book when she entered first grade. There’s a lifetime in those years. You want them to be worth something.
