I think part of my frustration with this particular story is that I thought it was pretty much done 4,000 words ago, and then I got some very smart critiques that made me think about opening it up and deepening it, and I decided to try doing that. But of course doing that has an effect on every part of the story, so that even the parts that I'm not changing directly have to be reassessed in light of the changes. And it's taking forever.

I am hopeful that it will be worth it. There's a lot of work yet to do, though. And yeah, placing it is going to be quite a pain . . .