The trip was successful, and I’m still in Montreal for another day or so. The food has been lovely, the walks are picturesque and mild, and overall it’s been a really lovely. Not flawless… I slept poorly last night and my back is unhappy with me. But that’s a small price to pay.

I’ve managed to get a fair amount of work done during the trip, and the short story I’m currently writing is almost done. I just hit the “final word count” and the story is only about 85% finished, but that’s pretty typical… I usually overshoot word-counts, and then edit down to the correct number. I suspect this will be the same.

The real trouble is trying to come up with an appropriate climax for the story. I have shards of an idea floating around, but it’s going to need a fair amount of work before it’s in a finalized form. But that’s okay, all part of the process.

For now, the part of the process I’m focusing on is eating breakfast and taking it really easy on my back.