I’m giving myself a week to finish up copyedits, more than enough time. Until that week hits, though, I am going to do something I have not done in years–take a break and write some just-for-me trunk fiction.

To me, “trunk fiction” is just like the trunk novel–with the important codicil that I understand it’s not good enough for publication, I’m just writing it to please myself. It will get shoved into a drawer if I ever finish it, and not brought out again–much like my first finished novel. This