the long way round

I’m taking the long way round. That’s what I wrote in my journal this morning as I was puzzling through a story idea. I was tempted, as often is the case, to go do some research and see how someone else may have structured something. And then I caught myself, my brain trying to take a shortcut in something that I didn’t want and I wrote: We’re taking the long way round, love. I’m determined to not…