I really like where this is going!
I really like where this is going! The interweaving of your personal current-day life and your past is something I‘m really liking here, and I hope I get to see more. Not sure if you plan on the train-hopping novel following a completely fictional character or if you’ll be in there as some kind of author analogue, but at any rate I hope there will at least be some essays like these running parallel and documenting your process as you go, because it was really enjoyable to follow here.