Eight months. That's how long it took to finally finish the last two hours I had left on the next page. Negative emotion and memories kept bombarding me whenever I looked at it, so I'd poke at it for a few minutes here and there before breaking down into tears and/or quickly moving to something else.

But I finally finished it.

I was worried the next page might take as long which is why I've been avoiding promising a return date. I'm still wary of giving a set date because I don't want to promise NAV will be back, only to end up giving up after a week or two. However, the next page hasn't been as hard. That surprised me. Until I realized I had worked on the prior page during the week where my sister's health slowly collapsed. And, like a smell that can transport you to a different time and place along with all the emotions associated with it, that page was doing the same for me about my sister's death.

But that page is now done. There's a light at the end of the tunnel. I might be able to handle doing NAV after all.

However, I am woefully out of habit of working on it in time to finish a page in a week. And I'd like to have a small buffer just in case something in the story triggers something.

So, this isn't much of an update. You'll still have to wait. But I'm at least moving forward. Small steps, right?