I made some great progress with Major Stafford’s Lady (book #3) in the Rothwell series while we were in Disneyworld, and then I hit a brick wall. A modern day romance was tickling around in my brain…a story I had begun years ago…and it would be heard! So I may write that story first (it will be a short story or novella, not a novel) and then get back to book #3. For some reason, the modern story is begging to be told!
Sounds like your brain is taking a vacation also in a new direction.
I’ve finished this novel but am writing an epilogue (the couple and what they are up to 6 years after their wedding). I just can’t get it right, but I will press on! I think I will just send a copy of it to anyone who is interested in reading it. Or maybe I’ll try and publish it on the internet. I think it can be done.