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Originally Posted by The Batlord
I'm honestly curious, though, did you take all this time off because you were so behind, or you just had new ideas that you wanted to do, and/or old ideas that you wanted to flesh out more? I don't expect an OCD stick-in-the-mud to give any clues, but just askin'.
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Honestly? I had a lot written, more to write, but could see time being --- I don't want to say wasted but certainly time I could use in a more profitable manner, given all the work I had to do --- frittered away maybe. I felt if I could pull back from the forum, drop any other commitments then I could just concentrate on Metal Month III. And I had a lot of ideas, and more new ones coming all the time. I was relatively well caught up on it, but I knew there was a lot more I could do, and wanted to do. That's more or less why I took the break.
And it worked really well. I may do the same next year. Or I may just start writing earlier. It's hard to have all these ideas in your head but be working to a deadline. I knew I could still be writing during October, but I wanted if possible to have as much as I could completed, so that it was just a case of slotting sections in each day, which is now how I have it. Everything is planned out, day by day, everything is written (other than a few little things: The Torture Chamber, October's new albums, that kind of thing) and I have time to, if I want, think of and add other sections as we go along. Though there's probably more than enough as it stands.