I finished my Greek story today.

Seriously, this was even more of a bitch to write than The Imperial Cat. It took me four weeks to write 2500 words, then two days (yesterday and today) to write 5000 words. It got to the point where I was ready to bang my head on a wall. Metaphorically I'd been doing that for weeks, of course.

The interesting thing about this story is that it's got a lot of truths in it – emotional, intellectual truths – which is probably why I had such a hard time of writing i...