Thanks for the posting. Makes me feel a little less lost to know that someone else is wandering around without a proper compass and is still making her way on this most fulfilling journey. It's so hard not to compare all the time -- it only took so-and-so three months to complete her first draft; so-and-so had only two days of revisions before being signed, blah, blah, blah. Every author is different, but so is every book. Your next one may not develop in the same way as your last one. All we can do is follow where the impulse tugs us.