So, somehow, I started writing Revolving Door again, after a hiatus that's well close to 2 years long now.
For those who aren't aware of it, RD is a web novel I started writing in 2013, and I've sworn that I will finish it before I die. In hindsight, COVID-19 was definitely the cause of the hiatus - the story drew so heavily upon the feeling of being in unfamiliar places, and the pandemic made that impossible for years.
Now, though my interest/priorities have shifted, it's been surprisingly easy to get back into it. This time around, I'm definitely spurred forward by Adelaide's world in particular--4 of the 8 chapters I just drafted are set there.
I've decided to ride this shift rather than try and force out plot points that I have less interest in at present - this is one of the things about RD that makes it so forgiving.
This novel is a strange beast. The chapters have a sorta unusual scale to them; each chapter is 2-3 chapters of a regular book, and they all strive to have a full plot structure each...so unlike Offshore, where I could end each one on a cliffhanger and carry the same thread through to the end of the novel, there's a definite starting and stopping to it, I regularly change gears, but I also get to choose whichever plotline interests me most at any given time.
I think all my working in the HCI research space has gotten me invested in picturing a future somewhat similar to our own, so the 20XX world has become my focus. I love the characters' dynamic with the world and each other, and I love how socially weird their position is, it makes for such fun writing.
