I took December off from writing my demon novel because:
I had eye surgery (my lacrimal glands had lapsed forward and needed to be sutured back into place)
I finished edits on my snow-monster novel and felt I’d earned a holiday
I’m recharging with books, music, and movies before I deep-dive back into that demon novel in January
But are these entirely justifiable reasons, I ask myself in mid-December. And where, pray tell, does one place a question mark in the previous sentence?